Vibrant Mountain Communities Regional Development in Mountains: Realizing Potentials, Tackling Disparities
This report draws on experiences from different mountain regions to shed light on three main levers for transformation in mountain areas: inclusive planning and decision-making, equitable access to quality public services, and collaborations to spark innovation.
Enhancing resilience within global value chains: the implications of COVID-19 for climate change adaptation and mitigation policies
This blog discusses the implications of the COVID-19 crisis in relation to trade within global value chains (GVCs) given the looming climate change crisis.
Agriculture & Rural Development Sectors Climate Change Adaptation
This guidance aims to help incorporate climate change considerations into project planning and design in the agriculture & rural development sectors.
Water Sector Climate Change Adaptation
This guidance aims to help incorporate climate change considerations into project planning and design in the water sector.
Energy Sector Climate Change Adaptation
This guidance aims to help incorporate climate change considerations into project planning and design in the energy sector.
Transport Sector Climate Change Adaptation
This guidance aims to help incorporate climate change considerations into project planning and design in the transport sector.
Adaptation Futures 2018: Conference Summary
This article summarises the key focus areas and outputs of the fifth Adaptation Futures international conference on global adaptation (Cape Town, 18-21 June, 2018).
Gender and climate change: Feminist development perspectives
This article asks a key question for adaptation and gender debates: what can we learn from development on social goal setting, institutional change, and gender equality?
Supporting private adaptation in semi-arid lands
This PRISE policy brief argues that to unlock the potential of businesses to drive climate-resilient development, support for private adaptation in semi arid lands needs to be rapidly upscaled.
Co-producing climate knowledge
'Co-production’ of climate knowledge is far from easy to achieve in practice. This article looks at what we mean by 'co-production', the challenges involved, and how we can move forward.
Webinar: Exploring the use of foresight methods in climate resilience
This webinar showcased the potential of foresight methods in increasing climate resilience in the light of "Juncker’s 5 Futures for Europe".
Integrating international climate change commitments into national development planning
This report examines how to support the successful integration of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into national development planning.
Designing Knowledge Coproduction for Climate and Development
This paper explores the ways climate and development researchers are using knowledge co-production approaches and the extent to which the approaches are reaching their potential.
Ensuring climate information guides long-term development
This article describes why climate-resilient development requires a step change in how medium to long-term climate information is produced, communicated and used in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
Youth Association for Development (YAD)
The Youth Association for Development (YAD) is a civil society initiative based in Loralai, Baluchistan and whose roots lie with a core of volunteers in different districts of Baluchistan.
Webinar: Adaptation Pathways
ASSAR, in collaboration with CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), organised a webinar on Adaptation Pathways on Friday 14 October 2016, available online here.
The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development
Established in 1977, the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) is the oldest and largest non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting rights-based, sustainable
Developing climate-smart agriculture in Nepal
Climate-smart agriculture mitigates climatic threats to food production in Nepal, which particularly affect women and smallholders.
Gender approaches in climate compatible development: Lessons from India
This policy brief explores the advantages and challenges of integrating a gender dimension into climate compatible development strategies in urban settings, in India.
Gender approaches in climate compatible development: Lessons from Peru
This report investigates advantages and challenges of integrating a gender dimension into climate compatible development strategies in urban settings, in Peru.
Mainstreaming climate compatible development
This book brings together lessons from the first seven years’ work of CDKN – the Climate and Development Knowledge Network – and invites you to share your experience.
Adaptation or Development? Case studies in Bangladesh and Vietnam
Using Bangladesh and Vietnam as ‘adaptation project-dense’ contexts, we sought to explore how adaptation is understood, mainly by practitioners in development projects...
National Adaptation Planning
Designing robust, flexible adaptation strategies for national adaptation plans.
