But when it rains heavily, crossing the nearby Msimbazi river becomes a real hazard. Mgcina once damaged his employer’s motorcycle in a serious accident near the flooded waters. Despite attempting to...
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2023 Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice
In this year’s Stories of Resilience, we bring you a crucial message from communities implementing adaptation on the ground: global and national systems are not changing fast enough in response to...
Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues
Ensuring resilient food systems and sustainable healthy diets for all requires much higher water use, however, water resources are finite, geographically dispersed and volatile under climate change...
World + 4 more
Advancing gender equality and climate action: A practical guide to setting targets and monitoring progress
1. Introduction There is a gender gap in development Worldwide, the average of women’s human development is behind men’s by 5.7% as a whole, based on: ● the ability to lead a long and healthy life,...
Bangladesh + 2 more
Nature-based Solutions for urban climate resilience in South Asia: Cases from Bangladesh, India and Nepal
Executive summary Climate change and anthropogenic activities have exacerbated biodiversity loss and severely affected the overall health of the world’s ecosystems. Technological solutions, which are...
Climate crisis and water stress create a perfect storm for women: We need radical collaborations for gender-just climate solutions
Addressing global stakeholders now engaged in COP27, researchers from CGIAR and CDKN come together to call for radical collaborations to achieve climate justice for women, girls and marginalized...
Climate resilience planning in mountainous regions in Nepal (June 2022)
Key messages Municipalities are key players in climate action and can make significant contributions to Nepal’s mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction efforts. Rapidly urbanising Nepalese...
Short- and long-term response to extreme weather events by the education sector in Zimbabwe
With extreme weather events increasing in their magnitude and frequency, it is critical to reduce the risk of exposure and vulnerability, especially in the education sector. Katharine Vincent (Kulima...
Economic recovery from Covid-19: prospects for sub-Saharan Africa
Governments seek to return to pre-Covid levels of economic activity, and there is much discussion on how to build back 'greener'. Lauren Hermanus looks at what is happening to achieve a green Covid...
Heat-health Advisories in Rural India: Learning during the Pandemic Era
Premsagar Tasgaonkar, Komal Modhave and Yogesh Shinde from the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), India describe how they have established a system to warn farmers in rural areas when heat levels...
South Africa + 2 more
Ecosystem-based Flood Management: A comparative study report of the cities of Cape Town and Durban (South Africa), Nairobi and Mombasa (Kenya)
Urban floods are becoming more common as a result of increasing urbanisation, poor urban planning, and climate change. A new report by PlanAdapt explores how the cities of Cape Town, Durban, Mombasa...
FEATURE: Can locally-led anticipatory action address climate impacts at scale?
There is considerable potential for more locally-led anticipatory action to prepare people for extreme weather and climate events and avoid loss and damage – reports Myriam Castaneda Solares of the...
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FEATURE: Project insights on communicating about climate change in Latin America
It is not easy to communicate the effects of climate change to different audiences. This is further complicated by social, cultural, political and economic challenges. María José Pacha and Gabriela...
Feature: Uttar Pradesh, India – Community owned solutions strengthen rural resilience
In the villages of Uttar Pradesh, India, a local NGO has set up community grain bank services and has mobilised farming families to grow their own vegetables and ensure food security during the...
FEATURE: El Alto Fucha, Colombia – Community gardens for food security during pandemic
In El Alto Fucha, an informal settlement in Bogota, Colombia, a community-based organisation is assisting communities to start agro-ecological gardens to ensure food security during the Covid-19...
Urban resilience in Bangladesh: Integrating local and national planning processes
Key messages Cities play a major role in local climate action and meeting national and international climate change commitments. Bangladesh has several national policies that support local resilience...
The Adaptation Research Alliance – a new global partnership for adaptation and resilience research
As part of the UK COP26 Presidency Adaptation & Resilience campaign, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is working with partners to co-develop an international Adaptation...
Siaya, Kenya – Repositioning skills for food security amid the Covid-19 pandemic
In a remote village, located in Siaya County, Kenya, a group of women have taken up vegetable farming as a means to fight against the Covid-19 induced food insecurity. Rosemary Atieno reports. This...
FEATURE: Addis Ababa – A community alliance faces up to Covid-19
In the peri-urban areas of Addis Ababa Ethiopia, community members are collectively saving money to deal with multiple hardships posed by the global pandemic. Ephrem Tesema reports. This is the 36th...
FEATURE: Kurigram, Bangladesh – Rural women together tackling multiple crises
In Kurigram district of Bangladesh, a women-headed, community-based organisation is training rural women and extending support to deal with Covid-19 and monsoon floods. Md Fahad Hossain reports. This...