This brief provides targeted recommendations for co-designing actionable and user-focused climate services. By this, the authors mean processes in which climate researchers and consultants work collaboratively with planners and other practitioners to
Practical Action considers Climate Information Services (CIS) to be a tool that can contribute to the realization of our change ambitions when designed and delivered effectively. It is important to bear in mind that the delivery of CIS itself is not our
This working paper explores the extent to which India’s largest social protection programme – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) – helped households prepare, cope and recover from the 2018 summer drought across
International Institute for Environment and Development
This paper is a strategic reflection on how the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) should increase its efforts to contribute to climate resilience in its working areas and to make its interventions fit for coping with climate change risks
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
With support from the Flemish Government of a total of 2.5 million EUR, WFP Malawi has led the Integrated Risk Management Programme (IRMP), which is a three-year project (2017-2019) implemented in three districts of the southern region of Malawi. The
This SEI discussion brief shows how co-designed climate services can better support adaptation processes by focussing on users’ needs, and gaining greater understanding of the challenges they face in making real-world policy decisions.
The report provides case studies, examples and explanations as to the role of climate information and services to support agriculture in the face of climate variability and change, assesses gaps and makes recommendations. This analysis helps highlight
Meteorologist says climate action is strengthened by clear scientific assessments, but the volume and cost of data for further projections remains a huge challenge.
The Weather and Climate Services for Africa (WISER) programme’s mission is to deliver transformational change in the quality, accessibility and use of weather and climate information services at all levels of decision- making for sustainable development
There is growing recognition that investing in climate resilience is an investment that organisations can ill-afford not to make: resilience rewards. However, building the systemic climate resilience of the economy and society cannot be achieved in the
MArket Research for a Climate Services Observatory
