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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Making Mobility Work for Adaptation to Environmental Challenges: Results from MECLEP global research
This comparative report of six countries empirically tests how migration can benefit or undermine adaptation to environmental and climate change, based on MECLEP research.
Promoting climate resilient value chains
The case study shows that there is a huge opportunity to promote food security and economic development for poor communities by supporting them in embracing climate resilient agriculture.
Making governance work for water-energy-food nexus approaches
This paper synthesises findings from CDKN-supported research that has sought to improve understanding of how governance affects the effectiveness of nexus approaches.
Disasters and national economic resilience
This paper aims to provide an analysis of economic resilience at the national level, presenting broad changes in resilience to climate extremes over a 42 year period.
Eco Green Community Based Organization
Eco Green is a Community Based Organization formed in January 2015 by a group of enthusiastic youths.
Felma Consult
Felma Consultants Ltd is an engineering firm in the field of civil and structural engineering, fully owned and managed by indigenous Kenyans.
Courting complexity in climate services: Lessons from Participatory Scenario Planning
The Participatory Scenario Planning approach for seasonal decision-making at the local level has been adopted in 6 African countries and in SE Asia. This article discusses what makes it successful.
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
This book documents emerging and innovative evaluation knowledge and practice for climate change and its links to sustainable development.
HyCRISTAL; Integrating Hydro-Climate Science into Policy Decisions
HyCRISTAL's goal is to understand the challenges and context of climate change impact at local level and to inform local-based solutions. The research focuses on East Africa.
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