Youth engagement in climate and health action
This report explores how young people are engaged in climate and health action in six countries – Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Ecosystem-based adaptation and integrated water resources management
This study explores how ecosystem-based adaptation and integrated water resources management can be merged to achieve greater climate resilience in watersheds.
Kenya’s perfect storm of Covid-19, floods and locusts swarms: What does it mean for food security?
In 2020, the East African region faced the multiple threats of locust swarms, flooding and COVID-19 which affected the livelihoods and food security of millions of people. This video discusses what could have been done to reduce the impacts of these threats.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development: Kenya Case Study
This case study explores Uganda's efforts to align its national-level policy processes under global agendas, highlighting the context-specific nature of the alignment process.
Kenya’s Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation: Simplified, integrated, multilevel
This Country Brief presents Kenya’s experience with the design of its adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system.
Inescapably intertwined: the reality of globalisation and borderless climate risks
Climate adaptation efforts are unlikely to succeed if done in geographic isolation. The Transnational Climate Impacts Index examines country exposure to climate change from an international view.
National Environment Trust Fund
National Environment Trust Fund (NETFUND) is a State Corporation established by the Environmental Management and Coordination Act of 1999.
Kenya’s County Climate Change Funds
Developing countries require significant financing to support the development and implementation of their NAP processes. This financing is expected to come from a mix of sources.
Determining what global warming of 1.5°C and higher means
This article describes ASSAR's method for what global warming of 1.5°C and higher means for the semi-arid regions of Botswana, Namibia, Ghana, Mali, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Global warming of 1.5°C and higher brings profound challenges to semi-arid regions
This page collects together key messages and outputs from the ASSAR project relevant to global warming of 1.5°C and higher.
Implications of 1.5°C+ for Kenya
This infographic illustrates the increasing impacts global warming of 1.5°C (and each further 0.5°C interval thereafter) will have on local climate extemes and vulnerable sectors in Kenya.
The gendered challenges of food security
This article provides key findings from ASSAR study sites in the semi-arid regions of Africa and India, where gender was found to have a large role in how food security is affected.
Do conservancies enhance the adaptive capacity of communities?
Consevancies allow communities to benefit from and mange wildlife resource, however how they are formed and by who affects their livelihoods and resilience of these communities.
Building capacity for risk management in a changing climate
This Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) project analyses the role of climate change in affecting the hydrological regimes of Kenya, Ethiopia, India and Bangladesh.
Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network
The CSA Youth Network is a group of volunteers that have a strong interest in the climate-smart agriculture and the environment.
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.
Climate variability and impact in ASSAR’s East African region
This new paper from ASSAR's east Africa team looks at impact climate-related risks, impacts and vulnerability across the semi-arid regions of East Africa.
Safeguarding livelihoods and promoting resilience through National Adaptation Plans– Case study: Kenya
This country case study on Kenya is one in a series that describes the steps taken to formulate and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
Center of Excellence for Crop Rotation
The Center of Excellence for Crop Rotation promotes Conservation Agriculture. This concept focuses on the following:
Decentralising climate finance: insights from Kenya and Ethiopia
This paper explores different mechanisms for delivering climate finance at the local level.
Budgeting for NDC action – Initial lessons from climate-vulnerable countries
This paper examines the evidence of resourcing NDC policies and actions in four sub-Saharan African countries that are known to be vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
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.
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