Susannah Fisher

Susannah Fisher was senior researcher, Climate Change, at IIED until 2018

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Languages: English, Hindi, French

Expertise

Climate change in the Least Developed Countries
Monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation
Planning for low carbon resilient development

Before IIED

Post-doctoral researcher (adaptation and development), Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
Policy analyst, strategy unit, the Cabinet Office
Project co-ordinator, Envision

Education

PhD, Geography Department, University of Cambridge
MSc, Environment, Science and Society, University College London
BA Human Sciences, Oxford University

Current work

Tracking Adaptation Measuring Development (TAMD)
Monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation
Assessing the political economy of national climate change responses
Gender and low carbon resilient development

Video playlist

Projects

Installing solar panels in Rwanda. Photo: Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)

Theories of change for low carbon resilient development

Archived Project

Insights

Sandbags in a doorway to prevent flooding

Adapting to climate change in Europe: building a systemic and urgent vision

Insight, 15 May 2019

Kenyan ministry officials, agricultural researchers and farmers are testing a range of climate adaptation measures in lower Nyando district (Photo: V. Atakos/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Addressing the political and technical challenges of measuring adaptation

Insight, 18 September 2018

Group discussions with women in Isiolo County, Kenya helped to generate specific evidence about why they and other marginalised groups are more vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Susannah Fisher, IIED)

Decision making in an uncertain climate

Insight, 23 January 2017

A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty

Insight, 21 July 2016

A woman carrying groceries in the village of Bouwéré, Mali. Assessments looked at how women experienced resilience to climate disruption (Photo: P.Casier/CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Monitoring and evaluation in a local context

Insight, 18 July 2016

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati consists of 33 atols and reef islands. Here, adaptation includes coastal protection measures such as mangrove re-planting, as well as strengthening laws to reduce soil erosion and population settlement planning (Photo: AusAID)

How to measure a global goal for adaptation?

Insight, 27 March 2015

A girl in Pakistan collects rainwater for washing (Photo: Fawad Khan)

Recognising the concerns of women and girls can improve the effectiveness of climate change adaptation

Insight, 14 January 2015

Introducing improved climbing bean varieties in Rwanda has transformed beans from a subsistence crop into a cash crop (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Flickr)

How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?

Insight, 24 November 2014

A borehole in Zambia, among the countries to have started thinking about NAPs, is developed for domestic water and irrigation as part of climate change adaptation measures (Photo: Pascal Manyakaidze via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Least developed countries take climate adaptation to next level

Insight, 11 March 2014

An Ethiopian farmer demonstrates the the impact of rain shortage on his maize crop (Photo: Dagnachew Belachew via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Connecting the dots: Sharing knowledge to build climate resilient green economies

Insight, 19 February 2014

A sign near Kathmandu, Nepal, warns of the dangers of landslides (Photo: Doug Letterman, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Nepal: Measuring resilience to climate change from the community up

Insight, 07 February 2014

Children go to school on boat in flood-prone Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B Akash/Panos

Least developed countries lead on low-carbon resilience

Insight, 16 October 2013

Rickshaws on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital city.

Bangladesh: from adaptation to low carbon resilience?

Insight, 10 July 2013

The private sector’s role in low carbon resilient development

Insight, 20 June 2013

A Rwandan farmer checks his coffee beans. A banana tree is visible behind him.

Rwanda: test case on international commitment to financing climate change adaptation?

Insight, 06 March 2013

Picture of the Punakha Dzong, an administrative centre in Bhutan. A river runs past it in the foreground and wooded hills rise behind it.

Low carbon resilience in the least developed countries: a panacea to address climate change?

Insight, 22 January 2013

Publications

Gender equality and informality in low-carbon transitions

19 October 2022

Engaging citizens for socially just climate action

01 July 2022

Gendered voices for climate action, a theory of change for the meaningful inclusion of local experiences in decision-making

01 October 2018

Gender, voice and power for climate action, Improving decision making through the inclusion of women and men’s lived experiences

01 October 2018

Climate change responses in a context of uncertainty

01 December 2016

Measuring effective and adequate adaptation

01 December 2016

Planning and implementing climate change responses in the context of uncertainty

01 December 2016

Exploring the role of social learning in addressing climate uncertainties in district planning in Uganda

01 December 2016

The political economy of low carbon resilient development

01 November 2016

A bottom-up approach: Identifying national standard climate change indicators for Uganda

01 March 2016

Financing inclusive low-carbon resilient development: Case studies of the Development Bank of Rwanda and the National Domestic Biogas Programme

01 October 2015

National experiences can inform a global goal for climate change adaptation

01 April 2015

Strengthening frameworks to monitor and evaluate climate adaptation in Uganda

01 April 2015

Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development in Nepal

01 March 2015

Low carbon resilient development and gender equality in the least developed countries

01 March 2015

Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development: a manual for local planning

01 March 2015

Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development: a step-by-step guide

01 December 2014

Ideas and knowledge: supporting Ethiopia to develop a climate-resilient green economy

01 December 2014

Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development through a gender lens

01 December 2014

Implementing a low-carbon resilient development agenda: lessons from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Rwanda

01 November 2014

Bringing together the low-carbon and resilience agendas: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Rwanda

01 September 2014

Tracking adaptation and measuring development in Nepal

01 June 2014

Financing a transition to climate-resilient green economies

01 April 2014

The monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation in Nepal: a review of national systems

01 December 2013