Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (Pty)

Our expertise is centred around climate change adaptation, and includes the related fields of vulnerability, climate finance, and disaster risk reduction.  We are also committed to taking gender-sensitive approaches to our assignments.  Common projects that we undertake include vulnerability assessments (at a variety of scales using various methods as appropriate to the context) and proposing adaptation options – for both policy and practice.  Between us we have many years or experience in Africa, and are well aware of the limited success of imposing solutions from outside.  We are committed to a complete understanding of institutional and policy context, and undertaking stakeholder consultation processes to ensure that proposed solutions are owned by the appropriate stakeholders to ensure their continued success.  Ongoing training and capacity building is another of our strengths.

The Directors of Kulima are Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull.  We have overlapping competencies and experience:  Katharine’s expertise is in the social dimensions of climate change especially vulnerability, adaptation and institutions and governance and Tracy is a training specialist, who has extensive university lecturing experience, as well as being accomplished in the design of bespoke training products (courses and written materials) for a variety of audiences, around climate change in particular. Our focus is on southern and eastern Africa, but we have experience across the continent and internationally.