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Sharing Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge across Africa

Tom Mitchell – 7 May 2008

There is a growing wealth of research and experience on climate change adaptation in Africa, but is it benefiting vulnerable communities? IDS, in partnership with three African organisations, has been awarded a three-year grant to enhance the communication and sharing of this knowledge across Africa and ensure that it helps those most in need. Supported by DFID/IDRC’s Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) programme, the project will focus on building skills in communicating research and sharing knowledge amongst vulnerable groups, researchers, policy makers and civil society organisations.

The project will develop knowledge-sharing and networking tools including web-based platforms, print and audio-visual resources and skills development workshops. It will build on, and help to network, the CCAA Programme’s participatory action research consortia that are spread across the continent and that began work in 2007 or 2008. Details of these consortia can be found on IDRC’s website.

The four partners – ENDA-Tiers Monde (Senegal); Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (Ghana); IGAD Climate Predictions and Applications Centre (Kenya) and IDS Institute of Development Studies (UK) – will lead and coordinate the project activities, with a knowledge sharing officer based at each of the four institutions to facilitate knowledge flows across networks. IDS will be helping to build the capacity of these officers and the other partners, drawing on our experience of adaptation research and international knowledge sharing networks from across the Institute’s climate change researchers and Information Department. Ownership of resulting networks and activities will ultimately be with lead African institutions.

The project is due to start in April 2008 and more information is available from the Programme Manager, Dr. Tom Mitchell

Tom Mitchell is an IDS Fellow in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team working on climate change, disaster management, participatory processes and governance.