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

Publication - Research reports and studies - 14 October 2011

Lindsey Jones, Frederik Ayorekire, Margaret Barihaihi, Anthony Kagoro, Doreen Ruta

This research report by the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) seeks to explore how existing Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Social Protection and Sustainable Livelihood interventions impact on adaptive capacity at the local level in Uganda.

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Climate change, water resources and WASH: a scoping study

Publication - Discussion papers - 30 September 2011

ODI Working Papers 337

Roger Calow, Helen Bonsor, Lindsey Jones, Simon O’Meally, Alan MacDonald, Nanki Kaur

Water is predicted to be the primary medium through which early climate change impacts will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. However, impacts on water resources and water-dependent services have yet to be adequately addressed in either scientific analyses or water policy. This report aims to fill some of these knowledge gaps.

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Analysing the governance and political economy of water and sanitation delivery

Publication - Discussion papers - 18 August 2011

ODI Working Papers 334

Daniel Harris, Michelle Kooy and Lindsey Jones

This Working Paper considers how the development community can best analyse the governance and political economy of water supply and service delivery in developing countries and how this can inform policy and programming.

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Impacts of climate change on children in South Africa

Projects - July 2011 to November 2011

The aim of the project is provide a desk review assessing the evidence of the impacts of climate change on children in case study areas of South Africa.

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Exploring social barriers to adaptation: Insights from Western Nepal

Publication - Articles and blogs - 14 July 2011

Lindsey Jones, Emily Boyd

This paper exposes the significant role of cognitive, normative and institutional factors in both influencing and prescribing climate change adaptation. It explores how restrictive social environments can limit adaptation actions and influence adaptive capacity at the local level, particularly for the marginalised and socially excluded.

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