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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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Why is 'development' struggling to embrace uncertainty?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 November 2012

'Whether seen from the perspective of delivering a government development plan or an NGO’s programmatic activities, each will have to respond to the myriad of changing future threats and opportunities. Doing so is crucial to success and sustainability in the long run.'

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Coding and tracking adaptation finance: lessons and opportunities for monitoring finance across international and national scales

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 October 2012

Lindsey Jones, Tom Mitchell, Paula Silva Villaneuva and Sarah Standley

One of a trilogy of papers that explores the concept of ‘climate finance’ in national budgetary systems and proposes pragmatic ways forward that will strengthen the policy debate. This paper focuses on adaptation finance.

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The (not so) easy task of translating research into policy and practice

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 3 October 2012

'How can research feed into development policy and support positive change? This question remains critical to the development research community, and attempts to answer it often rest on understanding the roles, interactions and incentives between the many different actors in the research to policy process.'

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Preparing for the future? Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change

Event - Public event - 25 January 2012 10:30 - 12:00 (GMT+00)

This event launches a new report - 'Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change: the role of development interventions' - exploring the role that development interventions are playing in helping people to face the future challenges of change – including climate change.

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Changing focus? How to start taking adaptive capacity seriously

Publication - Briefing papers - 4 January 2012

ODI Briefings 71

Eva Ludi, Lindsey Jones and Simon Levine

Drawing on evidence from the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) project – a research and advocacy consortium in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda – this Briefing Paper aims to understand better how different kinds of development interventions affect the characteristics of adaptive capacity.

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