Men and women farmers face contrasting realities
The Working Paper How resilient are farming households, communities, men and women to a changing climate in Africa? shows how men and women farmers are facing contrasting realities.
World Fish Center
The WFC is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organisation working in partnership with a wide range of government and non-governmental agencies at regional, national and local levels in
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
TISS has aims to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to the changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards c
A Cognitive Approach to Global Climate Governance
After more than 20 years of unsuccessful international negotiations, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) might be one of the biggest, and maybe most...
Modelling workshop
Three days of workshops involving different levels of decision-makers (local BMU leaders and government representatives) and researchers (KMFRI, CORDIO and SEI) were organised at the Pride...
Seasonal calendar exercise
Seasonal calendar exercise conducted in Massabla, Mali
ObjectivesThe seasonal calendar exercise was conducted during the field visit to the community of Massabla in...

Bangladesh NCAP: Gender Issues
In Noakhali, society supports a rigid gender division of labor that perceives men and women’s roles differently and distinctly defines...
Involving Stakeholders
Stakeholder participation can be used to democratise science and empower citizens, to inform policy making and to advise decision-making processes.
Gender Roles and Vulnerability to Climate Change
Gender Roles and Vulnerability to Climate Change
Gender and Climate Change
Work done by SEI Oxford on climate adaptation and DRR in southern Africa touched on gender issues. This article contains some extracts from the resulting report.

Effectiveness of risk communication
In the previous section we have focussed largely on the part of the communication where you are providing information, but equally important is the act of receiving information within the exchange...

Considering the process of communicating
Communication is a complex two-way process, with a number of factors that can lead to miscommunication, or the 'lost in translation' effect. Miscommunication can result from the choice of...
Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
Learning to graph climate data from local monitoring
(Funding: National Science Foundation - Decision-Making, Risk, and Uncertainty, #0826941)
We hypothesize...

Lessons learned from Tanzania NCAP Project
When considering adaptation options it is important to differentiate between genuine adaptive measures and an expansion in coping mechanisms that are already prevalent. Following Adger...

Key findings from Tanzania NCAP Project
A great deal of information was gained through the Tanzania NCAP programme. Detailed results from the two different programmes are given below:
Results from Rufiji
Results from...

Key findings from Bangladesh NCAP Project
Coping practices are often spontaneous and an immediate response of vulnerable people to different shocks. People use the means that are available to them in...
