The idea for the AfricaAdapt network was born of the wish to make proven knowledge on the issue of climate change adaptation available to African actors, and to promote knowledge sharing between resea
IDRC's Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program initiate aims to improve the capacity of African countries to adapt to climate change in ways that benefit the must vulnerable. To date, CCAA
During phase I (104391) of the African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP), 16 policy, 13 doctoral, 13 postdoctoral, and three teaching fellowships were awarded to a total of 45 fellows from 18
The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is spearheading efforts to arrive at a common African position on the post-Kyoto regime and has called on its Secretariat to oversee the p
The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) is the intergovernmental body of the African Union responsible for providing leadership and policy direction on the environment in the reg
IDRC's Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program aims to improve the capacity of African countries to adapt to climate change in ways that benefit the most vulnerable. Since the program's inc
Although institutions play an important role in shaping environmental beliefs, they are generally overlooked in environmental research and climate change in particular. The term "institution" is not i
In its five years of existence, IDRC's Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme has funded 41 research projects and trained over 300 researchers in adaptation methodology. In its sixth yea
The African Union (AU) expects the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat in Arusha and one of its key technical arms, the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) in Kisumu, to play a lead role in imp
Research partners led by the University of the Free State have recently completed a project, Managing Climate Risk to Agriculture and Water Resources in South Africa (104150). The project is funded un