Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
298
Feature
7th December 2011
New film released – Rwanda Today at CoP17 in Durban, CDKN and the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) together launch the film ‘Rwanda: Emerging in a Changing Climate’ which documents Rwanda’s efforts to plan and manage for climate change.
News
7th December 2011
Update on loss and damage from CoP-17 CDKN's Coordinator for South Asia, Kashmala Kakakhel, reports from Durban on a new agreement on loss and damage from the Subsidiary Body for Implementation.
Feature
6th December 2011
Lessons for adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa Dr. Richard Munang of the Climate Change Adaptation and Development Programme at UNEP tells CDKN about how to integrate climate risk considerations as early as possible in the policy-making process.
Event
3rd December 2011
CoP-17 side-event - ‘New paradigm’ for using climate information in Africa Lisa McNamara of CDKN Africa reports from Durban about a programme with huge potential to advance a new paradigm for analysing and using climate change information in Africa.
News
1st December 2011
CDKN reports live from CoP-17 Hear live from CDKN's staff at CoP-17, with our feed reporting direct from the conference in Durban.
Feature
29th November 2011
Durban bound - CDKN's pre-CoP newsletter Read CDKN's pre-Durban newsletter, setting out our presence at the conference and our most recent resources on the negotiations, and find out how to follow us at CoP-17.
Feature
25th November 2011
UNEP's young environmental journalist award Africa Entries for the 2011 UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award Africa are now open.
Feature
24th November 2011
Development and Climate days film festival – see the shortlist Watch the films shortlisted for the IIED's Development and Climate Days film festival, sponsored by CDKN.
Feature
1st November 2011
Can small-scale adaptation actions address the food crisis in the Horn of Africa? Dr. Richard Munang argues that in the Horn of Africa, large-scale commercial agriculture will fail to pull countries out of a cycle of food crises. The only way to break the cycle is to adopt small-scale farming methods that nurture ecosystem services.
Feature
27th October 2011
Postcard from Addis Ababa - 'Development first Lisa McNamara reports from the first Climate Change and Development in Africa conference held in Addis Ababa last week. Hosted by UNECA's African Climate Policy Centre, the strong 'development first' message of the conference set the stage for 'Africa's CoP' in Durban. Participants called for solutions to climate change and development challenges shaped by Africans, and informed by Africa’s priorities.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Advancing climate compatible development for food security through the implementation of national climate change strategies

The key project goal was to assist policymakers in developing countries to optimally harness climate finance for food

Completed
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Completed
Project : Using climate compatible development principles in African agricultural research and advisory services

This project examines the prospects for ‘climate compatible agricultural knowledge management’ to maximise opportunities for the rural poor to mitigate and adapt to climate change – and to be properly recompensed for the costs they bear in doing so.