Institute of Development Studies

Projects and Outputs

The Climate Change Team presents the following research projects and outputs.

Climate Change Team Projects

• Adaptation screening tools for development cooperation: Piloting ORCHID and other approaches - IDS is involved in a range initiatives to develop, test, discuss and disseminate tools for screening and assessment of climate and disaster risk. (2006 - 2009)
• AfricaAdapt - The Network facilitates the flow of climate change adaptation knowledge for sustainable livelihoods between researchers, policy makers, civil society organisations and communities who are vulnerable to climate variability and change across the continent. (2008 - 2011)
• BASIC - The BASIC Project is an action orientated research and capacity development project focusing on supporting the institutional capacity of key developing countries to undertake analytical work to determine what kind of national and international climate change actions best fit within their circumstances and priorities. (2005 - 2007)
• Children in a Changing Climate - IDS is working with leading research and development organisations to secure children and your people a voice in preventing and adapting to climate change – from their communities to the UN. (2008 - 2010)
• China Low Carbon Platform - A new knowledge-sharing web platform supporting an international network for low carbon energy and low carbon development in China. (2010 - 2010)
• Climate Airwaves - Climate Airwaves aims to support community radio broadcasters to transmit climate research to local communities in an easy-to-understand format. It also promotes sharing between different communities, local policymakers and researchers dealing with a changing climate. (2010 - 2011)
• Climate Planning - (Ongoing)
• European Development Co-operation on climate change to 2020 - The aim of this project is to synthesize and understand the evidence base on CC and EU development policy in key areas of CC and development programming and to map out possible future influences on these policy area (2008 - 2010)
• Learning Hub - A place for DFID staff to connect with and learn from fellow country office staff, DFID specialist advisers and technical experts as a basis for creating applied knowledge for dealing with the complexities of climate change in the development arena. (Ongoing)
• Linking African Researchers with Adaptation Policy Spaces - This project aims to increase the ability of CCAA programme partners in East Africa to understand climate change adaptation policy processes at local and national scales. (2009 - 2010)
• Pro-Poor Electricity Provision - This programme will develop and promote evidence-based policy and programme guidance on low carbon energy investments to benefit poor people, especially women and girls. (Ongoing)
• Strengthening Climate Resilience - Strengthening Climate Resilience has created the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Approach (CSDRM) for disaster risk managers, policy-makers and researchers. The CSDRM approach incorporates climate change resilience into the way we plan for, and respond to, natural disasters impacting vulnerable communities. (Ongoing)
• Support to Improve Climate Research and Information Services in South Asia (SICRISA) - Climate change researchers from South Asia are invited to apply to participate in a new fellowship programme and/or a residential writing workshop to be held in South Asia in 2012. (Ongoing)
• Understanding the Political Economy of Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Development - Despite the impasse at Copenhagen conference of the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), significant sums of money will be made available under a post-Kyoto framework for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. This project focuses on two global program initiatives, namely the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR), administered by the World Bank through the Climate Investment Funds, and the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). (Ongoing)