Climate-Resilient Water Management: An operational framework from South Asia
The paper presents a conceptual framework for Climate-Resilient Water Management (CRWM) and provides examples of CRWM interventions developed and deployed by the ACT programme across SE Asia.
Heat Stress, Vulnerability and health impacts
This working paper from ASSAR examines vulnerability of rural communities to heat stress in the semi-arid villages in Maharashtra state in India.
Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change within governance systems in South Asia
The paper introduces a general analytical framework for mainstreaming adaptation to climate change within governance systems.
Flood risk and Early Warning Systems in the Indian Himalayas
This science brief provides an example of an integrated adaptation response involving long term monitoring and an Early Warning System (EWS) in the Indian Himalayan Region.
Mountain and lowland linkages: A Climate Change perspective in the Himalayas
This science brief highlights the linkages between upland and lowland areas with respect to specific themes in mountain ecosystems.
An integrated response to climate change in the Indian Himalayan Region
This brief emphasizes the need to adopt an EbA approach in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) to enhance the climate resilience of communities dependent on natural resources.
Assessing climate vulnerability and risk in the Indian Himalayan region
This science brief provides a general guidance on conducting a climate risk assessment in the Indian Himalayan Region.
Valuing the Benefits, Costs and Impacts of EbA Measures
This sourcebook assists in building awareness, knowledge and capacity about why, how and in which contexts EbA valuation can be used to inform, guide and influence adaptation decision-making.
Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme
The Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme works to strengthen climate science (especially glaciology and related areas) and capacities for climate change adaptation planning.
Identifying differentiated needs for resilience planning in urban poor communities
This webinar looked at key results from the application of the Urban Community Resilience Assessment tool and discuss how it can better capture differentiated needs to inform resilience planning.
Watershed Organisation Trust - Centre for Resilience Studies (W-CReS)
The Watershed Organisation Trust - Centre for Resilience Studies (W-CReS) aims to bridge some of the gaps between science, policy and practice and promote multi-stakeholder collaboration at all lev
Learning from seven years of climate compatible development in Asia
A report by CDKN explores the value of stimulating climate compatible development at multiple levels of governance - drawing on seven years of work by in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Pakistan.
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.
Webinar: Accelerating Climate Resilient Development in Cities
This webinar focuses on the SDC funded CapaCITIES project in India, which is advancing climate action planning to accelerate transformation of cities to low carbon, climate resilient cities.
Guidelines for Designing Bankable Adaptation Projects
This paper presents a summary of the Project Appraisal Guidelines developed in collaboration with India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Developing a Demonstration Site in Nepal on Community Forestry, Gender and Climate Change Adaptation
A framework for better understanding and assessing climate change vulnerabilities in a context of multiple competing interests in a community forestry landscape through a pilot site in Nepal.
USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific
The USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific program shared information and best practices about climate fund requirements and helped governments build capacity to access climate change adaptation finance.
The utility of weather and climate information for adaptation decision-making
This paper outlines currently available climate information and presents examples from Africa and India to highlight successes and barriers to the use and uptake of information in decision making.
Project Preparation Approach Paper
This initial approach paper of the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific project highlights the variety of projects and readiness in each target country in Asia.
Building climate resilience in cities
This CDKN Essential summarises learning from CDKN work in cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean in mainstreaming climate compatible development in cities.
Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE)
HI-AWARE conducts research and pilot interventions, capacity building and policy engagement on climate resilience and adaptation in the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins.
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (VNIT) is one of the thirty National Institutes of Technology in India.
Life in Hebbal Settlement, Bangalore, India
The ASSAR urban research team at IIHS created a video from drawings at sites in the informal settlement of Hebbal where many interstate migrant waste pickers from West Bengal live.
Insight: Out of Mind
Tucked away behind one of Bangalore’s most luxurious apartment complexes lies an informal settlement of waste pickers. This short documentary focuses on Remnik, an inhabitant of this settlement.
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