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Sam Greene

Senior researcher, Climate Change

Sam works on co-developing participatory, gender transformative tools that inform climate-resilient development planning at the local level, particularly for local government authorities and community-based organisations. He is the content lead for the community-based adaptation conferences.
Full biography

Much of Sam’s research has focused on the development of mechanisms for the delivery of climate finance to the local level at scale in East Africa, particularly through devolved climate financing systems. This includes understanding and supporting the development of community led- planning institutions, tools that articulate local priorities, and local government planning and budgeting processes. 

Since much of this work has been focused in dryland ecosystems, he is also interested in the enabling conditions for effective adaptation in economies dominated by pastoralism where there is much to learn from strong, adaptive, customary natural resource management approaches. 

Sam has experience working across East Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi and Ethiopia.

Expertise

Pastoralist livelihoods; participatory planning and budgeting; gender transformative adaptation; climate-resilient development planning; local governments and institutions; climate finance.

Before IIED

Worked mainly for grassroots, community-based education institutions in Ghana and Malawi, supporting institutional development and strategic planning.

Education

M.Sc development studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
BA (hons) philosophy, University of Nottingham

Current work

Developing climate-resilient development planning, budgeting and budget tagging guidelines for local government in Ethiopia, while building institutional capacity to access climate finance. As content lead for CBA15, facilitating an inclusive and diverse programme for the conference and community of practice.

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Telephone: 
+44 (0)20 3463 7399
Email: 
sam.greene@iied.org
Twitter: @Adaptedplanet
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Sam Greene's projects

Groups of people and cattle taking and drinking water from a well

Building resilience in Ethiopia: climate-resilient development planning and budgeting

Project, May 2021
Women collecting clean water at a water pump

Strengthening the voices of women and young people in shaping local climate action

Project, May 2019
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)

Project, Jul 2018
Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Project, Mar 2018
The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)

Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?

Project, Jul 2016
Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

Project, Nov 2015

Latest publications

Knowledge and experiences from the 15th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

Building local impact for better access to climate finance

Muongozo / zana ya sauti ya pamoja katika kuimarisha ustahimilivu wa mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa na tabia nchi

Understanding local climate priorities: applying a gender and generation focused planning tool in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar

Pamoja voices climate-resilience planning toolkit. To support inclusive climate-resilient planning for rural communities

Every voice counts in a changing climate

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Sam Greene's blog posts

A photo and a plan of a small plot.

CBA15: Four messages ahead of COP26

Blog, Jul 2021
Drylands landscape with cattle in the background

CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?

Blog, Feb 2021
Screenshot of a video call with 25 participants.

Local must lead action to tackle world’s multiple interconnected challenges

Blog, Oct 2020
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace

Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown

Blog, Jan 2020
A woman in Malawi carries a solar panel above her head through a forest path

Climate adaptation: its time is now

Blog, May 2019
Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document

CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action

Blog, Jan 2019
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