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Tracy Kajumba

Principal researcher, Climate Change; team leader, strengthening partnerships 

Full biography
Expertise

Climate change adaptation mainstreaming across government and development programmes, public policy engagement, monitoring and evaluation for adaptation, gender and climate change adaptation across sectors, resilience programming and evaluation, climate risk assessments.

Before IIED

Regional senior climate change and development advisor for sub-Saharan Africa with Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Development Cooperation Division; country coordinator, Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance; advisor, gender, climate change and conflict management, Care International in Uganda; Government of Uganda

Current work

Tracy leads IIED's strengthening partnerships team to facilitate and promote local to global knowledge exchange to catalyse effective action on climate change, ensuring that the voices of vulnerable and excluded groups are included in policy and decision making; providing platforms for learning and sharing information, including grassroots voices; measuring adaptation and resilience effectiveness and providing robust research evidence to high light gaps in equitable gender, and climate  just governance and decision making.

She is also the institutional lead for intersectional disadvantage and inequality, providing leadership across IIED for work priorities that focus on intersecting inequalities. This includes promoting quality and innovation in relation to IIED’s work on gender exclusion, race, racism, and racial disadvantage working closely with its Gender Equality Champions Network and Race and Racism working groups, as well as providing review and support to addressing ethical issues relating to IIED partnerships. 

Tracy also supports the Least Developed Countries Initiative for Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) programme, leading work on gender equality and social inclusion, South-South learning and monitoring, evaluation and learning.

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Email: 
tracy.kajumba@iied.org
Twitter: @TKajumba
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Latest publications

Framing and tracking 21st century climate adaptation

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

Strengthening frameworks to monitor and evaluate climate adaptation in Uganda

Monitoring and evaluating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Uganda: TAMD appraisal study

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Tracy Kajumba's blog posts

Three women, one wearing a mask, the other two smiling and clapping, sit at a raised desk in front of an audience

In or out! Why balanced panels matter

Blog, Apr 2022
Woman speaking with a microphone to an audience of men.

Every voice counts: addressing inequality in research and development

Blog, Mar 2022
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

Blog, Sep 2021
Group of people sit and stand in a circle under a palm tree

Rethinking research and development approaches from a decolonisation perspective

Blog, Jul 2021
Woman filling a jerry can with water

Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change

Blog, May 2021
A protest march

Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice

Blog, May 2020

Links to other sites

Gender and climate-change budgeting and finance: lessons from the IBFCCA programme

CABRI policy brief, January 2022

The effectiveness of health provision for women and girls in the context of gender inequalities and climate change. A case study

Case study, Irish Aid, March 2021

Climate key sheet governance

Key sheet, Irish Aid, September 2020

Women as agents of change: towards a climate and gender justice approach

Policy brief, December 2018

Solving ‘wicked’ problems: can social learning catalyse adaptive responses to climate change? A compendium of case studies

IIED Backgrounder, March 2017

 
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