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  GIS and remote sensing course at ICRISAT Niamey

  

  admin | 2012-05-17 | 73.9 KB | details

  See background note.

• AfricaAdapt Newsletter- April 2012 edition

  

  admin | 2012-05-10 | 339.5 KB | details

  Read the latest news from AfricaAdapt!!
   
  In this issue, you will be updated on:
   
  AfricaAdapt network news : Meet & Greets events, Management Group meetings
   
  AfricaAdpt at the CoP17.
   
  You will meet Dr Richard Munang,Mrs Oulie Keita and Ange Baimey, through their interviews.
   
  Also meet some AfricaAdapt members, and learn more about some projects
   
  Read more in this newsletter
   
   
  

• GCCA Training Modules on Mainstreaming CC into Development Plans

  

  admin | 2012-04-12 | 96.2 KB | details

  A GCCA workshop for OCT countries took place 27-28 January 2012 immediately following the OCT-EU Forum meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

  
Participating countries :  Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, French Polynesia, Greenland, St Eustasius, St Helena, St Maarten.

  
Venue: European Commission, Brussels, BELGIUM
Agenda: Agenda of the Workshop 27-28 January 2012



  Customized training materials:
Module 0: "Introduction" - Module 



  Module 1: "Understanding climate change development linkages" - Module and handout 



  Module 2: "Mainstreaming climate change and strengthening institutions and capacities" - Module and handout 



  Module 3: "Understanding the basics of the climate change science" - Module and handout 



  Module 4: "Understanding and planning under certainty" - Module and handout 



  Module 5: "Raising awareness and building partnership" - Module and handout 



  Module 6: "Mainstreaming climate change in national, sector and sub-national policies, strategies and programmes" - Module and handout 

  Module 7: "Costing, assessing and selecting adaptation and mitigation options and measures" - Module and handout 



  Module 8: "Mainstreaming climate change in the budgetary process" - Module and handout 



  Module 9: "Mainstreaming climate change in monitoring systems" - Module and handout 



  Module 10: "Synthesis, conclusions and way forward" - handout 



  Other documents available: Acronyms, Glossary and References 

   

• Contrasting climate variability and meteorological drought with perceived drought and climate change in northern Ethiopia

  

  admin | 2012-04-02 | 744.7 KB | details

  Perception of people on climate chnage and drought in Northern Ethiopia

• AfricaAdapt newsletter - February 2012 edition

  

  jnnam | 2012-03-02 | 207.4 KB | details

  Read the latest news from AfricaAdapt, meet some of our members and learn about their projects. This edition includes a special feature on Technologies for Agriculture (TECA), an online platform for sharing technologies for agriculture.

• AfricaAdapt stories of change

  

  jnnam | 2012-01-28 | 1.3 MB | details

  Learn from the experiences of local communities who are already using information from the network to make smarter adaptation choices

• New voices, different perspectives: proceedings of the AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium 2011

  

  jnnam | 2012-01-17 | 2.8 MB | details

  This publication contains short abstracts of all the papers and addresses delivered during the
  Symposium, with links to extended versions of the papers and powerpoint presentations. It also includes the summary of discussions and participant reflections on the event.

• Symposium - Call for papers

  

  admin | 2010-12-05 | 154.5 KB | details

  The deadline for submitting proposals for Symposium consideration is January 3rd 2011. Proposals should be submitted as an abstract – maximum 300 words. Please e-mail abstracts and/or questions by e-mail to: symposium@africa-adapt.net.

• Symposium flyer

  

  admin | 2010-12-05 | 216.6 KB | details

  A one page flyer to download. You can print off or email to let others know about the symposium.

• Towards a characterisation of adaptive capacity: a framework for analysing adaptive capacity at the local level

  

  josephinelofty | 2010-11-22 | 337.1 KB | details

  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 local level remains limited. Most development interventions are not designed with a climate change ‘adaptation’ label, but it is likely that they influence communities’ capacity to adapt to changing shocks and trends – whether as a result of climate change or other pressures associated with development (see Jones et al., 2010). A framework for understanding and assessing adaptive capacity at the local level is needed to begin to understand how it can be supported through wider development processes at both local and national levels. Such a framework may in time serve as a platform to monitor progress, identify needs and allocate development resources to enhance a system’s ability to adapt to change.

• Nature: reaching hearts through art

  

  wamuthoni | 2010-11-02 | 60.5 KB | details

  One thing that a traveler in Nyandarua and Laikipia districts (Kenya) will notice is the beautiful painting on the walls of houses. One could easily mistake them for advertisements because of their numbers. They are murals painted by Tree Is Life Trust through the local artists on environmental awareness. The paintings carry different messages that encourages the community to take action on natural resources conservation. The murals are the best communication tool because they can be understood by most of the people here inclusive of the illiterate and the children. The murals are done mostly on the roadside structures. There are also in schools. Tree is Life Trust also entered into partnership with UN Development Programme to paint such murals around Mount Kenya in a project called Brush Against the Power Saw. The trust also has also erected tree-shaped metallic boards that have different messages painted on them along the roads. They are referred to as metal trees. In Nyandarua and Laikipia there are 79 murals and 12 metals tree to creating awareness. 93 other murals have been done around Mount Kenya.

• Introducing CARE's Adaptation Learning Programme in Africa

  

  admin | 2010-11-01 | 25.5 KB | details

  Cynthia talks about Care's initiative on community based adaptation in Africa

• AfricaAdapt newsletter issue no 5

  

  admin | 2010-11-01 | 320.2 KB | details

  AfricaAdapt newsletter is is issued on a quarterly basis

• Principal conclusions of the forum (Powerpoint presentation)

  

  nathalie-beaulieu | 2010-10-29 | 701.6 KB | details

  This presentation was made during the closing session of the forum on Friday October 29th. It was complemented by an assessment of lessons learned by participants. It presents an initial set of conclusions drawn from the discussions regarding mechanisms that allow climate change adaptation to contribute to poverty alleviation and about recommendations to organisations that support or implement adaptation initiatives.

• Participant list of the forum / Liste des participants au forum

  

  nathalie-beaulieu | 2010-10-29 | 238.9 KB | details

  This document presents the list of participants of the Learning Forum on Evaluating the Contribuion of Climate Change Adaptation to Poverty Reduction which took place in Dakar on October 25-29 2010. It also presents hyperlinks to the project abstract and objectives in the IDRIS+ database for represented projects. Ce document présente la liste des participants du forum d'apprentissage intitulé"Évaluer comment l'adaptation aux changements climatiques contribue à la réduction de la pauvreté" qui a pris place du 25 au 29 octobre 2010 à Dakar. On y trouve aussi des hyperliens menant à la base de données IDRIS+ présentant le résumé et aux objectifs des projets représentés.

• Use of « contribution analysis » as an underlying methodology for this workshop (Powerpoint presentation)

  

  nathalie-beaulieu | 2010-10-26 | 2.2 MB | details

  This resource groups two presentations made during the workshop. It presents the rationale and the proposed process for using contribution analysis as the underlying methodology for the workshop (Monday October 25). Il also presents the examples of causal diagrams presented on Tuesday October 26.

• Summary of Background Paper (Powerpoint presentation)

  

  nathalie-beaulieu | 2010-10-25 | 912.0 KB | details

  This presentation was made during the opening session of the learning forum. It presents a short summary of the background paper, focusing on gaps in current knowledge and on working definitions. The background paper itself can be found in the resources of this page.

• Background Paper for the CCAA learning Forum on Evaluating the Contribution of Climate Change Adaptation to Poverty Reduction

  

  nathalie-beaulieu | 2010-10-21 | 406.0 KB | details

  This background paper presents the rationale for a CCAA learning forum on the linkages between adaptation and poverty reduction. It attempts to present the current state of knowledge about the nexus between climate change adaptation and poverty reduction, grounded in current methods of evaluating adaptation. Finally, it identifies gaps that the forum will address and the approaches to be used. This is a working paper that should evolve with the forum and with the inputs of participants.

• Synergies between adaptation and mitigation in a nutshell

  

  dilikool | 2010-10-14 | 784.3 KB | details

  This briefing paper was produced as part of the COBAM project implemented by CIFOR. COBAM is funded by the African Development Bank, as part of its support to ECCAS for the implementation of PACEBCo, which has the COMIFAC as its executing agency. Written by Dr Bruno Locatelli, this paper explains in a very simplified way, concepts of adaptation and mitigation and the potential synergies that may exist between the two

• Consultation version: ACCRA's Local Adaptive Capacity Framework (LAC)

  

  josephinelofty | 2010-10-01 | 288.5 KB | details

  Consultation version of the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance's Local Adaptive Capacity Framework

• Concept note of the CCAA Learning Forum on Evaluating the Contribution of Climate Change Adaptation to Poverty Reduction

  

  nathalie-beaulieu | 2010-09-22 | 318.8 KB | details

  This note presents the background, the rational, the objectives and expected outputs of the forum.

• Note d'orientation sur le forum d'apprentissage: Évaluer comment l'adaptation aux changements climatiques contribure à la réduction de la pauvreté

  

  nathalie-beaulieu | 2010-09-21 | 265.7 KB | details

  Ce document décrit le contexte, la justification, les objectifs et les produits attendus pour le forum.

• Responding to a changing climate: Exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

  

  josephinelofty | 2010-08-30 | 868.9 KB | details

  This paper reviews how aspects of disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches may act in contributing to the various features of adaptive capacity in the context of climate change.

• AfricaAdapt website user's guide

  

  admin | 2010-07-30 | 1.1 MB | details

  A guide to joining and using the AfricaAdapt website.

• Africa Adapt newsletter: July 2010 (English version)

  

  admin | 2010-07-30 | 3.6 MB | details

  This is the AfricaAdapt newsletter for July 2010.