Improving the co-production of climate services for agriculture
This case study aimed to strengthen capacities of farmers and government officials to understand and share climate information and best practices to inform agricultural decision-making in Nigeria.
The Tandem framework
The Tandem framework provides a holistic approach for the co-design of climate services. The seven-step approach is designed to help scientists, intermediaries and decision-makers collaborate.
Delivering Climate Services: Organizational Strategies and Approaches for Producing Useful Climate-Science Information
This paper reports on research that evaluated how three Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments produced useful climate information for improved decision support in a variety of sectors.
A framework for climate services evaluation and its application
This paper describes an elaborated logic model to structure the evaluation of a climate services program, which is demonstrated in a case study of the Caribbean Agrometeorological Initiative (CAMI).
Climate data and projections: supporting evidence-based decision-making in the Caribbean
This report provides an overview of climate data and information available from the CARibbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG) data portal and how they can be used to support decision-making.
Climate Knowledge Brokers
The Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group is a growing alliance of around 400 leading global, regional and national knowledge brokers specialising in climate and development information.
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.
Identifying climate services needs for national planning: insights from Malawi
This article identifies the opportunities and barriers to the use of climate services for national planning in Malawi.
Climate Information & Early Warning Systems Communications Toolkit
Learn to issue and package early warnings and create integrated communications strategies that support the value proposition for climate information, weather forecasts and NMHS in Africa.
Prairie Climate Centre
The Prairie Climate Centre is a collaboration of the University of Winnipeg and the Internati
Helping decision-makers make sense of climate information
This Future Climate For Africa report presents an overview of climate trends across regions of Africa and a series of climate factsheets that are tailored for specific sub-regions and countries.
Climate information services
A collaborative project trains communicators to disseminate climate information services and advisories to smallholder farmers.
Cocoa farmers plan for climate change
Through providing basic climate information and training, cocoa farmers in Central America are now better prepared for climate change.
Barriers for long-term climate information use in decision-making
Recent paper by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) identifies barriers and enablers to use longer term climate information in development plans.
Climate Change and Wheat Farming
This is a theoretical case study representing a guide in how to use CIP in analysing historical and future rainfall patterns in the Swartland region in South Africa.
Mainstreaming the Use of Climate Data by Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe
Climate change in Zimbabwe is reinforcing a negative seasonal cycle of increasing vulnerability - but use of climate information by small-holder farmers has been limited.
Accessing and Using Climate Data and Information in Fragile, Data-Poor States
This report provides peacebuilding practitioners with guidance for accessing and using climate data and information in fragile contexts.
FCFA Pilot: Mozambique
As a precursor to the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) research activities, CDKN, on behalf of DFID commissioned a series of case study activities with the purposes of...
FCFA Pilot: Ghana
As a precursor to the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) research activities, CDKN, on behalf of DFID commissioned a series of case study activities with the purposes of...
How is climate information being factored into long-term decision-making in Africa?
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The impacts of climate change in Africa will be significant and long-term (see for example here for some headline...
Participatory scenario planning in Kenya
This case study introduces and reflects on the use of Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP) in Garissa, Kenya.
Visualising climate information
The video describes and discusses some of the key findings from a survey-based study titled "Visualising Climate Information".
A case study using step-by-step climate guidance
This case study in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania, highlights how climate information can be used to support adaptation planning and policy-making in the rural agricultral sector.
A case study using step-by-step climate guidance
This case study in a suburb of the city of Cape Town, South Africa, highlights how climate information can be used to support land use management.
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