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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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Analysing the governance and political economy of water and sanitation service delivery

Projects - October 2010 to June 2011

The purpose of this project is to improve understanding among policy makers and practitioners of how to analyse the governance and political economy of water and sanitation in a given country context.

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Responding to a changing climate: Exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

Publication - Discussion papers - 26 August 2010

ODI Working Papers 319

Lindsey Jones, Susanne Jaspars, Sara Pavanello, Eva Ludi, Rachel Slater, Alex Arnall, Natasha Grist and Sobona Mtisi

This paper reviews how aspects of disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches may act in contributing to the various features of adaptive capacity in the context of climate change.

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Overcoming social barriers to climate change adaptation

Publication - Discussion papers - 11 July 2010

ODI Background Notes

Lindsey Jones

Studies in Nepal and India cast light on the social barriers to climate change adaptation.

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World Water Day: Skewed adaptation to climate change spells trouble for water resource management

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 March 2010

Adaptation to climate change has gained ground within the international policy arena in recent years. But confusion remains on how best to support adaptation, given the broad range of interventions that aim to facilitate it.

While this problem applies to any interventions seeking to address adaptation, it is particularly relevant to the water sector.

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Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)

Projects - February 2010 to February 2015

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) aims to help decision-makers in developing countries design and deliver climate compatible development. It does this by combining research, advisory services and knowledge-sharing in support of locally owned and managed policy processes. CDKN works in partnership with decision-makers in the public, private and non-governmental sectors nationally, regionally and globally. CDKN is managed by an alliance of organisations that brings together a wide range of expertise and experience: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, SouthSouthNorth, LEAD International, LEAD Pakistan and INTRAC.

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