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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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Are we jumping the gun in trying to measure adaptation?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 25 March 2011

A clear and concise methodology for measuring adaptation to climate change has yet to emerge. But the need for it is clear.

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Towards a holistic conceptualisation of adaptive capacity at the local level: insights from the Local Adaptive Capacity framework (LAC)

Publication - Discussion papers - 5 March 2011

Lindsey Jones

Demonstrated through findings from field research across three African countries (Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda), this paper argues that frameworks for understanding and supporting adaptive capacity at the local level need to move away from focusing only on what communities have that enable them to adapt.

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Mapping existing donor funded adaptation investments

Projects - March 2011

In order to inform future DFID adaptation investment strategies, the ODI undertook a mapping of different donor and MDB adaptation programmes.

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Towards a characterisation of adaptive capacity: a framework for analysing adaptive capacity at the local level

Publication - Discussion papers - 1 December 2010

ODI Background Notes

Lindsey Jones, Eva Ludi and Simon Levine

This Background Note puts forward a ‘Local Adaptive Capacity framework’ developed as part of the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) programme, in an attempt to incorporate intangible and dynamic dimensions, as well as capitals and resource-based components into analysis of adaptive capacity at the local level.

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