Here is an overview of the latest publications on climate change adaptation and development from the IDS Climate Change and Development Centre (click on links for full document or research summary):

Principles for Delivering Adaptation Finance
By Tom Mitchell, Simon Anderson and Saleemul Huq

This briefing by IDS and IIED proposes a set of principles for delivering climate change adaptation finance that provide a way of assessing the efficacy of different international and national delivery mechanisms

Evaluating climate change adaptation from a development perspective
By Merylyn McKenzie Hedger, Tom Mitchell, Jennifer Leavy, Martin Greeley and Anna Downie

A new report by IDS for the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) presents a multi-scale adaptation evaluation framework and argues that clear and effective adaptation evaluation feedback mechanisms are needed at all levels from household to project to programme.

id21 climate change highlights: Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Duplicated activities, ineffective use of resources and confusing policies are just some of the reasons why disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation should converge. This issue of id21 highlights captures latest research findings on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction making a strong case for closing the prevailing policy and practice gap between them.

Poverty in a Changing Climate: IDS Bulletin
Thomas Tanner and Tom Mitchell (eds)

'The poor' or 'poor people' are often categorised as one homogenous group in the climate change response. The latest issue of the IDS Bulletin 39.4, Poverty in a Changing Climate, argues that adaptation measures will never be efficient, effective or equitable unless the different layers and dimensions of poverty are recognised.

Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection: A Briefing Note
By Mark Davies, Katy Oswald, Tom Mitchell and Thomas Tanner

This briefing note argues that comprehensive social protection that aims to prevent impoverishment and protect, promote and transform livelihoods and social relations, provides significant opportunities for adaptation and disaster risk reduction. This briefing note was prepared for DFID and for the OECD DAC.

Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities
By Thomas Tanner, Tom Mitchell, Emily Polack and Bruce Guenther

This research, undertaken with a set of partner research institutes, examines how to manage climate-related impacts in an urban context by promoting planned and autonomous adaptation in order to by improve resilience in a changing climate.

Convergence of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
By Tom Mitchell and Maarten Van Aalst

This study diagnoses why climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction have been treated somewhat separately to date, makes a case for further convergence and presents a set of concrete recommendations on how this can be achieved.

Child Voices: Children of Nepal Speak Out on Climate Change Adaptation
By Dhruba Gautam and Katy Oswald

New research by Children in a Changing Climate, led by IDS, shows that children living in poor areas of Nepal understand the need to change their lives and the livelihoods of their families in response to climate change. Moreover, they have already started doing so and can identify the types of support they need to better cope with climate change impacts.

Los niños y niñas, y la gestión de riesgos: un rol clave en la prevención de desastres
By Thomas Tanner, Gonzalo Rodriquez and Jimena Lazcano

Children are often portrayed as passive victims of disasters. An article (in Spanish) based on IDS-led research in El Salvador challenges this assumption and outlines the potential of youth groups as agents of change and risk management in their communities. An English version will shortly be available.

Separate Streams: Adapting water resources management to climate change
By Merylyn Hedger and Jane Cacouris

The world is in the midst of a global water crisis linked to climatic changes. New research shows that that poor communities in semiarid areas in Niger and Brazil are adapting to the variable climate. The report, commissioned to IDS by Tearfund, identifies how climate change adaptation can be integrated within the water sector to benefit the most poor and vulnerable people.

The time is NOW - Lessons from farmers on adapting to climate change
By Jennifer Leavy, Kattie Lussier and Ilana Solomon

Scientists predict that in some countries global warming could halve crop yields over the next decade, but a new report argues that farmers are already harvesting less. The report, commissioned to IDS by ActionAid, is based on field research in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, Malawi and Vietnam and argues that small farmers lack adequate resources and information to combat climate change impacts.

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