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Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance: Phase 2 Synthesis Evaluation, final report

23/06/2017

3 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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ACCRA, which began implementing its programme in Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia in 2009, works with national and local governments and civil society groups in the countries where its programmes are implemented to tackle complex climate change issues and work towards increasing community adaptive capacities, transforming governance systems and achieving climate justice. This evaluation of phase […]

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Briefing paper

Influencing the Development and Integration of National Standard Climate Change Indicators into the Monitoring and Reporting Frameworks in Uganda

01/12/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper documents the results of the process of developing and selecting national standard climate change indicators for integration into two national monitoring and evaluation frameworks in Uganda: the Output Budgeting Tool (OBT) and the Local Government Assessment tool (LGAT). The OBT is used by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) to […]

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Briefing note

Climate Change Spending in Ethiopia: Recommendations to bridge the funding gap for climate financing

01/11/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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The Government of Ethiopia considers climate change to be one of its priorities in responding to the country’s long-term development needs. The nation’s widely acclaimed Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy has called for annual spending of $7.5bn. With federal budgetary resources for climate change relevant actions estimated to be in the order of $440m […]

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Briefing paper

Strengthening Frameworks to Monitor and Evaluate Climate Adaptation in Uganda

01/04/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Uganda’s reliance on natural resources renders its economy extremely vulnerable to climate change. This makes it essential to track progress on adaptation initiatives and ensure the whole country is on a path towards climate resilience. This briefing examines monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks currently used by the Government of Uganda and considers how they could […]

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Case study

Good Practice Guide: Local Disaster Risk Reduction planning in Ethiopia

15/07/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study showcases the Ethiopia Disaster Risk Reduction national planning system and how the ACCRA programme supports its design, roll-out and scale-up using participatory tools and capacity building as a way to influence at all levels. This government-led programme seeks to change Ethiopia’s reactive approach towards emergencies and find new ways of managing risk. […]

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Case study

Weather and Climate Forecasting for Community Resilience to Climate-Related Risks and Shocks in Uganda

09/05/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study showcases the innovations from Uganda’s Meteorology Department to simplify, interpret, translate into local languages and communicate the seasonal weather forecast. This innovation started in June 2012 with financial support from ACCRA consortium with the leadership of World Vision Uganda.

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Case study

Policy Overview: Ethiopia Climate Resilient Green Economy

09/05/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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The Ethiopia CRGE is a vision to build a middle-income climate resilient green economy by 2025 (USD 1,000 GDP per capita) through zero net carbon growth. This development strategy is laid out in the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). Climate change is impacting across the whole economy. The future impacts and costs of climate change, […]

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Discussion paper

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

01/12/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Interest is growing in supporting vulnerable people and communities to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, and there is a general assumption that there are close links between development and adaptation. Yet our understanding of the impacts that development interventions have on adaptive capacity at the local level remains limited. Most development interventions […]

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