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1. 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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   Talking about a revolution? Launch of the ACCRA phase I final report

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 20 December 2011

   'Dealing with climate change is going to need better deals to reduce emissions, new technologies, more funding... But most of all, it's going to need a quantum leap in people’s ability to predict, analyse and deal with change and not fall into abject poverty. Forget about changing how we do development. Let’s talk about a revolution.'

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   Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change: what hope for Ethiopia’s water sector?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 December 2011

   'Mainstreaming has become a popular approach to national-level adaptation, where climate change concerns are integrated with development policy and planning processes. Despite being fairly simple in theory, this is not easy in practice.'

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   Living the Durban Durbar

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 December 2011

   'Climate compatible development is about mitigation and adaptation - and much more. It is also about shaping industrial and social change on a global scale. No country can afford to be isolated from the transformational change that will inevitably take place, driven by climate change itself, but also by responses to it.'

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   Climate and conflict-affected states - last in line for climate finance?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 2 December 2011

   The IPCC report ‘Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation’ (SREX) released on 18 November 2011, rightly places strong emphasis on the links between climate change adaptation and disaster risk management, yet we know very little about what this means in practical terms for conflict-affected and fragile (CAF) states. A simple comparison of climate change vulnerability indices and CAF indices such a

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   People flooded village rural Mozambique

   People walk through flooded village in rural Mozambique
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   Credit: TheHumanitarianCoaliton.ca
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   Managing disasters in a changing climate: Introducing the IPCC ‘Special Report on Extreme Events’

   Event - Public event - 24 November 2011 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+00)

   Coming only days before the start of the Durban climate change negotiations, this event will examine findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX).Written over two years and involving nearly 200 authors and many hundreds of reviewers, the report provides a unique insight into the future of disasters in a changing climate and ways governments and societies might respond.

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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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   REDD+ and adaptation: will REDD+ contribute to adaptive capacity at the local level?

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 21 November 2011

   Kristy Graham

   This paper examines how synergies between REDD+ and adaptive capacity at the local level can be maximised and analyses whether this is likely to occur, highlighting tradeoffs that need to be explicitly addressed.

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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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