by Katharine Vincent | Jul 27, 2011 | Projects, Travel
Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull are in Cape Town for the third run of the foundation course of the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership Adaptation Academy. The four week, full time course provides insights into climate change science and applied aspects of...
by Katharine Vincent | Jul 14, 2011 | Projects, Short-term assignments, Travel
Kulima is collaborating with FAO to assess the sustainability of a project distributing short-cycle seeds in Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi. The Food Security and Disaster Risk Reduction project, funded by the European Union (ECHO/DIPECHO) has distributed...
by Katharine Vincent | Feb 24, 2011 | Projects, Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent attended the INGC planning meeting, held on 23-24th February in Maputo, together with colleagues Dr Mark Tadross of Climate Risk Management and Dr Emma Archer of CSIR. Climate Risk Management is leading an INGC phase 2 project, in partnership...
by Katharine Vincent | Feb 5, 2011 | Projects, Training, Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull will shortly be leaving for Accra, Ghana, where they will be acting as mentors at the UNU-UNISDR-SEI Anglophone African Writeshop. The event, which aims to assist African early career scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to...
by Katharine Vincent | Jan 8, 2011 | Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent has just left for Tsukuba, Japan, where she will participate in the first Lead Authors Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group Two for the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report. Katharine is a lead author on...
by Katharine Vincent | Oct 29, 2010 | Short-term assignments, Travel
Dr Katharine Vincent has just returned from the second learning forum of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) Programme. The CCAA programme is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)...