Enabling access to the Green Climate Fund
This learning paper provides insights from the Action on Climate Today (ACT) programme in South Asia to improve country ‘readiness’ to access climate finance.
Bringing adaptive management to life: Insights from practice
The paper sets out a framework for an adaptive programme, including a set of essential core principles, to assist in integrating climate change adaptation into development planning.
Unpacking Transformation: A framework and insights from adaptation mainstreaming
This paper puts forward a conceptual framework for determining the likelihood of an adaptation initiative delivering transformation.
Recent research on gender, social norms, and women's economic empowerment
Commissioned by IDRC through the GrOW program, this paper reviews and contextualises recent research on social norms and the interaction with women’s economic empowerment.
Even half a degree of warming matters for South Asia’s urban poor
Aditi Paul of CDKN Asia reflects on the revelations in the IPCC’s 1.5°C Special Report and its implications, including key messages for cities.
Mapping the stories of climate change
This article shows how the online platform Story Maps communicates climate change impacts and relevant adaptation measures in the Hindu Kush Himalaya to a wider audience to support action.
Climate-Resilient Agriculture in South Asia: An analytical framework and insights from practice
The paper explores entry-points for and examples of climate resilient agriculture (CRA) in South Asia, and the current challenges and knowledge gaps affecting it's implementation.
Sri Lankan Youth Climate Action Network (SLYCAN) Trust
SLYCAN Trust works to contribute to collective local and global efforts to address impacts of climate change, sustainable development, and social and economic issues hindering social justice.
Safer lives and livelihoods in mountains
This publication highlights 15 cases of good practice in development and applied research from mountain regions, and illustrates how the Sendai Framework’s four priorities can be put into practice.
Global exposure and vulnerability
This paper aims to support understanding of the interplay between multiple climate change risks and socioeconomic development through investigating exposure to multi-sector climate impacts.
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.
Afghanistan: Climate Change Science Perspectives
Released by UN Environment and Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency this publication describes the country’s most up-to-date and detailed climate change (August 2017).
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.
Equitable Resilience in Local Institutions
ERLI looks at how resilience practice plays out ‘on-the-ground’ through in-depth and qualitative case studies of nine local institutions in Bangladesh.
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters
BRACED is helping people become more resilient to climate extremes in South and Southeast Asia and in the African Sahel and its neighbouring countries.
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.
Janathakshan (GTE) Limited
Janathakshan (GTE) Limited is a not for profit company established in 2011 to promote sustainable and green solutions in development to Sri Lanka and beyond.
American University School of International Service
American University’s School of International Service (SIS) produces cutting edge research and prepares the ne
ICCCAD - International Centre for Climate Change and Development
ICCCAD aims to be a global Centre of Excellence on Climate Change and Development research based in Bangladesh, where Climate Change has a significant impact.
ASSAR Regional Diagnostic Studies
The first phase of ASSAR was to investigate what people in semi-arid regions currently know about climate change, and what they’re doing to adapt to these changes.
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Semi-Arid Regions of India
ASSAR is a research project that seeks to understand the factors that have prevented climate change adaptation from being more widespread and successful. This article features ASSAR's work in India.
CARIAA
The Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) aims to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in three climate change hot spots.
Men and women farmers face contrasting realities
The Working Paper How resilient are farming households, communities, men and women to a changing climate in Africa? shows how men and women farmers are facing contrasting realities.
The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report: What’s in it for Small Island Developing States
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced the most comprehensive assessment of climate change ever. The Fifth Assessment Report, which the IPCC is releasing...
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