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CC&E Nexus Brief: The El Niño Phenomenon and Related Impacts 
This brief focuses on El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon and the 2015/2016 El Niño event in particular, the environmental and societal impacts and effects of which will extend well into 2017.
Lessons on Climate Services in Africa
A learning event held in February 2016, in Nairobi, shared good practices and key challenges associated with providing climate and weather information services.
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Semi-Arid Regions of East Africa
Home to hundreds of millions of people, the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia are particularly vulnerable to climate-related impacts and risks.
DSTs for health
This article was originally written for the HEALTHY FUTURES Newsletter no.4 (Summer 2013) and has been adapted for this website article.
A major outcome of the HEALTHY FUTURES...
Healthy Futures
HEALTHY FUTURES is an international collaborative research project that aims to reduce the future burden of three water-related vector-borne diseases (VBDs) -malaria...
Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA)
The Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme (UN-FAO) aims to help developing countries transition to climate smart, low carbon emission agriculture.
Climate Data Management in the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi
This study analysed the capacity of 20 weather observation stations in providing reliable and adequate climate data for effective climate change adaptation in the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi.
Lake Chilwa Adaptation Programme
The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCBCCAP) is a five-year programme whose overall goal is to secure the livelihood of 1.5 million people in the Lake Chilwa Basin and...
Social Protection: Health
Climate-related diseases are responsible for a large proportion of the global burden of disease. Human health is therefore not surprising predicted to be adversely affected by projected climate...
Climate changes in East Africa
The average global surface temperature has warmed 0.8°C in the past century and 0.6°C in the past three decades (Hansen et al., 2006), in large part because of human activities (IPCC...
Africa Regional Strategy
This short overview of climate change issues in Africa was written by Ben Smith and Anna Taylor in 2009 as input to an Environment and Climate Change policy brief to inform the...
Effective use of climate science to improve adaptation in Africa
Stockholm Environment Institute, May 2008
INTRODUCTION
Adaptation to climate variability is...
Constructing Sand Dams for Water Capture and Storage
Photo: Excellent Development
Drought is the most serious natural hazard facing Eastern Africa in terms of seaverity and frequency of occurrence. The most seriously...
Mainstreaming CC in IWRM
The Pangani River Basin drains Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru in northern Tanzania and flows to the Indian Ocean in the township of Pangani in Tanga Region. The River and its...
African Centre for Technology Studies
The African Center for Technology and Science is a Nairobi-based international intergovernmental science, technology and environmental policy think-tank that generates and disseminates new knowledg
