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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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Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance - Phase 2

Projects - January 2012 to April 2014

The purpose of ACCRA is to increase the use of evidence by governments (specifically in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique) and other development and humanitarian actors in developing and implementing policies and interventions that improve poor people's adaptive capacity, with a specific focus on climate related hazards, change and variability – both in the short and long-term.

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Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change: the role of development interventions

Publication - Research reports and studies - 20 December 2011

Simon Levine, Eva Ludi and Lindsey Jones

This report examines the role of development interventions in Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia in relation to supporting local adaptive capacity to climate change.

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Children’s vulnerability and the impacts of climate change – policy-makers must pay greater attention

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 23 November 2011

We know that children are one of the most vulnerable groups to the impacts of climate change. We also know that the nature of their vulnerability is multidimensional - shaped largely by their physical, cognitive and physiological sensitivities and the changes that take place over the course of childhood.

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Exploring the impact of climate change on children in South Africa

Publication - Research reports and studies - 19 November 2011

Lindsey Jones, Patricia Martin, Paola Pereznieto, and Sarah Standley

The study highlights the likely impact of climate change on children’s health, education, nutrition, safety and access to adequate housing and sanitation in South Africa – both directly and indirectly. The study presents a body of evidence that South Africa’s climate is already changing.

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Preparing for the future? understanding the influence of development interventions on adaptive capacity at local level in Ethiopia

Publication - Research reports and studies - 14 October 2011

Eva Ludi, Million Getnet, Kirsty Wilson, Kindie Tesfaye, Beneberu Shimelis, Simon Levine, Lindsey Jones

Recognising the complex relationship between climate and development, this paper provides a synthesis of key findings from the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance’s (ACCRA) research in Ethiopia which explored how development interventions impact on adaptive capacity at the local level in Ethiopia.

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