News for Theme 'Crosscutting Issues'
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Images from training workshop on action research
admin | 2011-04-19 05:52 | Related project | Crosscutting Issues, Gender, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability
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Lindiwe Sibanda: Keynote Address
admin | 2011-03-22 11:58 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Lindiwe Sibanda: New Thinking on Community-led Responses: From Local to Global View more presentations from AfricaAdapt [ read more ]
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Henry Mahoo: Keynote Address
admin | 2011-03-22 11:51 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Henry Mahoo: Roles of local and indigenous knowledge weather forecasting in addressing climate change View more presentations from AfricaAdapt [ read more ]
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Fatima Denton: Keynote Address
admin | 2011-03-22 11:50 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Fatima Denton: Links between adaptation, mitigation and low carbon, or climate compatible development View more presentations from AfricaAdapt [ read more ]
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Keynote Address by Youba Sokona
admin | 2011-03-22 11:45 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Youba Sokona: Adaptation is development: Linking policy to practice View more presentations from AfricaAdapt [ read more ]
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Keynote Address by Patrick Luganda
admin | 2011-03-22 11:43 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Patrick Luganda: Role of the media in climate change adaptation View more presentations from AfricaAdapt [ read more ]
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Presentation on project progress and findings to date (March 2011)
admin | 2011-03-22 10:40 | Related project | Crosscutting Issues, Gender, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability
Blane Harvey: Community radio, action research and advocacy for climate justice: lessons learned from Ghana View more presentations from AfricaAdapt [ read more ]
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Community led responses to climate change: let’s start build from the local to the global
admin | 2011-03-21 08:31 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
The AfricaAdapt Symposium opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the UNECA conference centre on March 9 2011. Leading from the opening session, the first panel of the event focused on ‘Community Led Responses – from local to global’. This interactive session followed well after the opening addresses, where the need ... [ read more ]
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National and international policies on climate change – linking policy and practice
admin | 2011-03-21 08:28 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
This session chaired by Monica Idinoba from the African Union highlights the array of challenges that we face in linking global policy to the national level. Are national strategies being coherently developed and implemented? Are these policies adequately responding to the needs at the local level? The panelists during this ... [ read more ]
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How can we effectively communicate, translate and share climate change knowledge?
admin | 2011-03-21 08:22 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
To scale up and down research and policies, climate change knowledge needs to be shared between different actors and the general public. This session, chaired by Patrick Luganda, highlighted an array of mediums - from community radio to newspapers and the internet – that can be used to communicate and ... [ read more ]
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Keynote speaker bio: Henry Mahoo
admin | 2011-03-06 03:42 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Prof Henry Mahoo holds a BSc in Applied Hydrology (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) , MSc in Irrigation Engineering; (Univ. Newcastle, UK), and a PhD from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. His areas of speciality include hydrology, irrigation, drainage and water harvesting. Henry is a member of Institution of ... [ read more ]
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Keynote speaker bio: Dr Youba Sakona
admin | 2011-03-06 03:40 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Dr. Youba Sokona is the coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) based in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The ACPC is a joint initiative of the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. He is also a co-chair ... [ read more ]
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Keynote speaker bio:
admin | 2011-03-06 03:24 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda has been CEO of FANRPAN since 2004. She is currently coordinating policy research and advocacy programs in 14 southern African countries, all aimed at making Africa a food-secure region. Her portfolio includes policy research and advocacy work on food policies, agricultural productivity, natural resources and environment, and ... [ read more ]
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Keynote speaker bio: Patrick Luganda
admin | 2011-03-06 03:19 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Patrick Luganda is the Chairman of the Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa (NECJOGHA) and Editor in Chief of the Farmers Voice Newspaper in Uganda. He is an active science journalist with special interest in Climate related issues and agriculture. He is an award winner of ... [ read more ]
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Keynote speaker bio: Fatima Denton
admin | 2011-03-06 03:14 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability, Water
Fatima Denton leads IDRC research on adaptation strategies that help Africa’s poor cope with climate change impacts like reduced agricultural productivity and more intense weather events. She joined IDRC in 2006 after working as a senior energy planner with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Denmark. She has also ... [ read more ]
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Background note: "Towards a characterisation of adaptive capacity: a framework for analysing …
josephinelofty | 2011-02-16 23:58 | Related project | Crosscutting Issues, Gender, Poverty and vulnerability
Interest is growing in supporting vulnerable people and communities to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, and there is a general assumption that there are close links between development and adaptation. Yet our understanding of the impacts that development interventions have on adaptive capacity at the ... [ read more ]
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Images from the second workshop
admin | 2010-10-31 06:03 | Related project | Crosscutting Issues, Gender, International climate negotiations, Poverty and vulnerability
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Consultation on new ACCRA Adaptive Capacity Framework
josephinelofty | 2010-10-12 14:21 | Related project | Crosscutting Issues, Gender, Poverty and vulnerability
The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance has launched the consultation version of the ACCRA adaptive capacity framework.
ACCRA is an exciting and ambitious consortium working to improve our understanding of adaptive capacity. We have developed an innovative 'adaptive capacity framework' which we are consulting on, and we are currently ... [ read more ]
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Publication: Responding to a changing climate: Exploring how disaster risk reduction, social …
josephinelofty | 2010-09-22 01:13 | Related project | Crosscutting Issues, Gender, Poverty and vulnerability
Responding to a changing climate: Exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity, ODI Working Papers 319, August 2010
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Snow Falls in Kenya!
ahs | 2010-09-11 07:03 | Related project | Agriculture, fisheries and food security, Crosscutting Issues, Health, Poverty and vulnerability
On Friday 6 September 2010, the community of Charagita in Ol-Kalau, Kenya woke up to find snow on their fields; a new phenomenon brought about by climate change. [ read more ]