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Lindsey Jones

Research Officer, Climate and Environment

Lindsey Jones is a Research Officer working on issues of climate change, adaptation and development.

Lindsey has previously worked with the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal (supporting the country’s National Adaptation Plan of Action) and the World Food Programme. Lindsey has an MSc in Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford and has experience working in Southern and Eastern Africa (namely Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, and South Africa), and Southern and South-Eastern Asia (India, Nepal, and Cambodia).

Current (and future) research activities/interests include:

- Evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation planning/programming

- Tracking adaptation finance at different scales

- Supporting adaptation and resilience in fragile and conflict-affect areas

- Designing new tools to promote adaptation and DRR awareness (such as 'policy gaming')

- Identifying and overcoming barriers to adaptation

- Understanding the Political Economy of adaptation

If interested in finding out more about these projects, or discussing potentional collaborations, please get in contact directly.

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Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators

Publication - Research reports and studies - 19 April 2013

Tom Mitchell, Lindsey Jones, Emma Lovell and Eva Comba

This report examines options for including disaster risk management in the post-2015 development framework.

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The political economy of local adaptation planning: exploring barriers to Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making in three districts in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique

Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 February 2013

Lindsey Jones, Eva Ludi, Aklilu Amsalu, Luis Artur, Matthew Bunce, Shirley Matheson, William Muhumuza and Daniel Zacarias

This paper explores key institutional barriers in preventing effective Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM) within development policy and programming. More specifically, it explores the influence of various institutional and sociopolitical drivers on the ability of district governance processes to adapt to change and uncertainty.

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New approaches to promoting Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making - Full Report

New approaches to promoting Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making: insights from complexity science, climate change adaptation and ‘serious gaming’

Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 February 2013

Lindsey Jones, Eva Ludi, Patrick Beautement, Christine Broenner and Carina Bachofen

Drawing on insights from complexity science, this paper describes what processes are needed to promote Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM) and trials three game-and reflection approaches to engage local decision in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda.

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Achieving water security: lessons from research in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia

Publication - Books or book chapters - 2 January 2013

Edited by Roger Calow, Eva Ludi and Josephine Tucker

Achieving water security remains an elusive goal across swathes of sub-Saharan Africa. This book asks why, and draws on extensive field research and institutional analysis in Ethiopia to offer insights for policy and practice which are relevant across the continent.

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Fresh water being poured into a jerrycan. Harshin district, in the eastern Somali region of Ethiopia

Scoping study on social vulnerability in three climate change hotspots for the CARIAA programme

Projects - November 2012 to October 2013

The Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) aims to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in these three hot spots by supporting collaborative research to inform adaptation policy and practice.

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