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Solar panels on a lake.
Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
News, 31 August 2020
A group of women use a ladder to climb up to an imposing well to collect water in a desert-like landscape
Integrating gender and intersectionality in social protection programmes
… Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) – the world’s largest public works-based social protection programme. The research revealed the following impacts of COVID-19: … gendered and intersectional social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction at the local level. For poor …
Insight, 07 September 2021
The Ewaso Ng'iro River, in Isiolo County's Shaba National Reserve, Kenya where pilot projects to support adaptation 'may not yet be perfect, but have the right idea'. (Photo: Ninara via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Why community 'based' adaptation to climate change is not enough
Insight, 18 March 2014
Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
Project, 12 June 2018
An aerial view of dozens of shack housing in close proximity, with colourful roofs
Bridging the urban adaptation finance gap
… Previous blogs have discussed the inadequacies in urban adaptation finance from national governments and international agencies. … and socially-led innovations (including savings groups, community insurances and participatory budgeting) may also have an important role to play.  4. Diversity Place-based research can provide a holistic view of how different financing …
Insight, 25 April 2022
Woman standing in water, fishing using a big netted basket.
Reflections on UNOC3 and strengthening coastal stewardship
… participation and justice in ocean governance. Elements of the programme that were organised by or centred the voices of small-scale … when underpinned by proper monitoring, evaluation, learning and adaptation. Another set of tools that can effectively support coastal … More promising was the launch of the  Pacific Whale Fund , a rights-based ocean finance mechanism co-developed with Indigenous Peoples …
Insight, 23 June 2025
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… Ethiopia’s chairmanship – launched the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) . This LDC-led initiative seeks to … Uganda, Kenya, Fiji, Philippines and Peru (among others) Nature-based solutions implemented across different ecosystems and landscapes – … that are working, and that can be replicated and scaled up.  The 13th community-based adaptation event (CBA13) , this year taking place in …
Insight, 06 March 2019
Small fishing boats just off the coast. Another boat on the beach in the foreground.
Incentives for coastal conservation and fisheries management
… of different tools, including social protection , subsidies, market-based tools such as  payments for ecosystem services , or rights-based … led by WorldFish (2023-30) under the UK’s Climate and Ocean Adaptation and Sustainable Transition (COAST) Programme of the Blue Planet Fund .  While our primary goal is to …
Project, 04 June 2024
Building resilience for cotton farmers in India - cover image
Building resilience for cotton farmers in India: evidence from Gujarat and Maharashtra
… The links between crop insurance and other risk reduction and adaptation measures, including government programmes and community-led initiatives, could also be better understood. This study … of cotton farmers in the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Based on interviews and focus groups with farmers, it reveals their …
Publication, 30 September 2024
Event highlights: CBA14 – 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 17 August 2020