Reports
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ASSAR final report (2014-2018)
ASSAR’s overarching objective in the original proposal was to:
Published date
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 - 05:00
ASSAR’s overarching objective in the original proposal was to:
Semi-arid areas in Southern Africa are characterised by high rainfall variability, frequent droughts, low soil moisture and extreme events such as flash floods.
Vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered. Still, policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities’ adaptive capacity largely fail to recognise the gendered nature of everyday realities and experiences.
This briefing note summarizes the key findings from the Regional Diagnostic Study (RDS) recently conducted in Ghana and Mali, as part of the ASSAR project.