Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Sharing project
avril 25, 2008 par endaenergie
IDS, in partnership with three African organisations, has been awarded a three-year grant to enhance communication and sharing of climate change adaptation knowledge across Africa. 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, to ensure that the growing wealth of research and experience on climate change adaptation in Africa is used to the benefit of vulnerable communities.
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 complementing partners 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 four core partners of the project are
- ENDA-Tiers Monde (Senegal)
- Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (Ghana)
- IGAD Climate Predictions and Applications Centre (Kenya)
- Institute of Development Studies (UK)
The project is due to start in April 2008. For more information, please contact the Programme Manager, Dr. Tom Mitchell (t.mitchell@ids.ac.uk)
Links
+ normal climate change links (to our group website, to IDS In Focus on adaptation etc)
