DECCMA releases a summary of its key findings on climate change, migration and adaptation
As it nears the end of its 4.5 year lifespan, the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project has released a summary of its key findings on climate change, migration and adaptation. Deltas are home to 500 million people...
Kulima hosting a writeshop on climate services for the UMFULA project
This week Kulima is hosting a writeshop in South Africa for members of the UMFULA project (under the Future Climate For Africa programme). The writeshop will be attended by team members from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment,...
New open access paper “How do staff motivation and workplace environment affect capacity of governments to adapt to climate change in developing countries?”
A new paper "How do staff motivation and workplace environment affect capacity of governments to adapt to climate change in developing countries?" has just been made available online in the journal Environmental Science and Policy. The paper, led by Joanna...
Kulima director in Kathmandu for the 5th Climate Change Adaptation Policy and Science conference
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Kathmandu this week at the 5th Climate Change Adaptation Policy and Science (CCAPS) conference, taking place at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). The conference marks a final event for the Himalayan...
Kulima director in Southampton to work with the DECCMA team
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Southampton this week to work with the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) team. The aims of the visit are to assess and synthesis DECCMA findings on adaptation needs and practice in deltas. With the...
New paper “Communities of practice. One size does not fit all” in Climate Services
A new paper "Communities of practice. One size does not fit all" is now available online in the journal Climate Services. The paper, by Katharine Vincent, Anna Steynor, Katinka Waagsaether and Tracy Cull, furthers the argument for a nuanced understanding of...
New briefing paper “Policy coherence for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa” with inputs from Kulima
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (at the London School of Economics and Political Science) and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy has just released a briefing note "Policy coherence for sustainable development...
New paper with inputs from Kulima “Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement”
A new opinion piece "Documenting the state of adaptation for the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement" has been published in WIREs Climate Change. The paper, by Emma Tompkins, Katharine Vincent, Robert Nicholls and Natalie Suckall, proposes a stocktaking...
New UMFULA paper released “Climate information needs in southern Africa: A review”
The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the Grantham Research Institute of Climate Change and the Environment and the University of Leeds has released a new working paper as an output of the UMFULA project. Dr Katharine Vincent is an author of...
Kulima director in Kisumu for meeting of the GCRF project “Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in sub-Saharan Africa”
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Kisumu in Kenya this week to participate in the a meeting of the "Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in sub-Saharan Africa" (BRECcIA) project. BRECcIA is a four year project...
New report on six good practices of agricultural adaptation in Africa by Kulima and UNIQUE forestry and landuse for GIZ
GIZ have launched a report "Agricultural adaptation: Six categories of good practices and technologies in Africa" that was led by Kulima and UNIQUE forestry and landuse. The report was produced as part of GIZ support to the Comprehensive...
Kulima participating at Adaptation Futures 2018 in Cape Town
Kulima will be participating in several sessions at Adaptation Futures 2018 in Cape Town this week. On Tuesday 19th June, Dr Katharine Vincent will be a panellist during S55 "What do the intersections between resilience and wellbeing offer development...
Kulima director attending Adaptation Pathways meeting in Cape Town
Dr Katharine Vincent is attending an adaptation pathways meeting in Cape Town today. The meeting is part of the cross-consortium project under the Collaborative Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia programme that includes representatives from the four CARIAA...
Kulima director participated in gender and migration field school for the Western Indian Ocean Deltas Exchange and Research (WIoDER) network
In late May Dr Katharine Vincent participated in a gender and migration field school under the Western Indian Ocean Delta Exchange and Research (WIoDER) network. WIoDER is a network comprising four deltas in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagacar and has training...
“Developing and applying a five step process for mainstreaming climate change into local development plans: A case study from Zambia” now available in Climate Risk Management
A new paper "Developing and applying a five step process for mainstreaming climate change into local development plans: A case study from Zambia" has just been published in the journal Climate Risk Management. The paper outlines a process for mainstreaming...
Kulima director running adaptation training with WWF in Nairobi
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Nairobi this week running training for WWF's Africa Adaptation Initiative. The training will bring together representatives of WWF offices and their civil society partners from across the continent, including Mozambique, Madagascar,...
Kulima director participating in meeting on measuring adaptation
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Bonn for a side meeting to the UNFCCC intersessional discussions on measuring progress on adaptation. The event is organised by IDRC and the African Group of Negotiators Expert Support (AGNES) and follows on from a side event at COP 23 held...
New paper on large scale transdisciplinary collaboration with inputs from Kulima
A new paper has been published in the journal Global Challenges on "Large-Scale Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Adaptation Research: Challenges and Insights". Led by Georgina Cundill from IDRC, with inputs from Katharine Vincent, the paper highlights...
“Climate change adaptation and cross-sectoral policy coherence in southern Africa” just published in Regional Environmental Change
A new paper, "Climate change adaptation and cross-sectoral policy coherence in southern Africa" has just been published in Regional Environmental Change. The paper is an output of the UMFULA project, and was led by Matthew England from the University of...
“A framework for identifying and selecting long term adaptation policy directions for deltas” New paper published with inputs from Kulima
A paper "A framework for identifying and selecting long term adaptation policy directions for deltas" has just been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The paper was led by Natalie Suckall from the University of Southampton and...
New viewpoint published on the role of sovereign insurance in disaster risk management
Climate and Development has just published a viewpoint article entited "Sovereign insurance to incentivize the shift from disaster response to adaptation to climate change – African Risk Capacity's Extreme Climate Facility". The article, led by...
Kulima director invited to take part in ASSAR project MOOC planning workshop
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Cape Town this week, participating in a workshop hosted by a project in the CARIAA programme, Adaptation to Climate Change in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASSAR). As a legacy of its learnings on ensuring research impact and research informing...
Kulima director participating in UMFULA writeshop on institutional responses to climate change
Dr Katharine Vincent is participating in a writeshop this week with her colleague on the UMFULA project (Future Climate For Africa programme), Dr Joanna Pardoe from the Grantham Research Institute for Climate and Environment at the London School of Economics and...
Kulima director participating in DECCMA whole consortium meeting in Dhaka
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Dhaka this week to participate in the whole consortium meeting of the DEltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project. DECCMA is one project within the Collaborative Adaptation Research...
Kulima director in Dubai for meeting of the CARIAA research-into-use group
Dr Katharine Vincent is continuing the week in Dubai with a meeting of the Collaborative Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia programme research-into-use group. The meeting is attended by research impact and communications experts from the four CARIAA...
Kulima director participating in meeting of the CARIAA Gender and Equity Working Group
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Dubai this week to participate in a meeting of the Collaborative Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia programme Gender and Equity Working Group. The meeting brings together researchers from the four CARIAA programmes...
Kulima director participating in writeshop for the DECCMA project
Dr Katharine Vincent is in the UK this week to participate in a writeshop. The writeshop is being held under the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa...
Happy holidays from Kulima Integrated Development Solutions
Katharine Vincent and Kulima associates would like to wish all their partners and colleagues Happy Holidays. The office of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions will remain open over the festive season, with the exception of public holidays. We look...
Kulima investigating the development of Malawi’s National Resilience Strategy
Katharine Vincent, Diana Mataya and Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema are working with colleagues from the University of Leeds and Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources to investigate the development of Malawi's National Resilience Strategy. The UMFULA...
New paper on climate change and the water-energy-food nexus in Tanzania
The journal Climate Policy has now published online a paper "Climate change and the water–energy–food nexus: insights from policy and practice in Tanzania". The paper, led by Joanna Pardoe from the London School of Economics and Political...
How can climate information build a resilient Malawi? Report published of a panel discussion on 2nd November
On 2nd November 2017, after the UMFULA annual meeting, a panel discussion co-hosted with the Civil Society Network on Climate Change and LUANAR was held in Lilongwe with the title "How can climate information build a resilient Malawi?" UMFULA PI,...
Taking stock and looking forward: UMFULA’s annual meeting and stakeholder events in Malawi
Taking stock and looking forward by Kulima on Exposure
UMFULA publishes a variety of outputs relating to climate information
At its annual meeting and stakeholder events last week in Malawi, UMFULA published a number of outputs relating to climate information. Climate briefs were presented for both Malawi and Tanzania, in which future climate projections are highlighted, based on 34 global...
Kulima participating in UMFULA annual meeting in Malawi
Dr Katharine Vincent, Diana Mataya and Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema are in Mangochi this week, participating in the annual meeting of the UMFULA project, part of the Future Climate for Africa programme. The meeting brings together the climate scientists, impact modellers and...
Kulima director participating in DECCMA writeshop
Dr Katharine Vincent will be spending time with her DECCMA colleagues this week. The Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation project is part of the IDRC Collaborative Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia programme. A writeshop is...
CSIR and Kulima launch 2nd edition of Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Kulima Integrated Development Solutions have today launched the second edition of "Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa" (edited by Claire Davis-Reddy and Katharine Vincent)....
Kulima continues to develop research on co-production
Kulima Integrated Development Solutions has been developing various threads of research into co-production. As part of the UMFULA project (Future Climate for Africa programme) a co-production approach has been attempted to develop climate information to inform...
Kulima director attending Future Climate For Africa conference in Cape Town
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Cape Town this week, participating in the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) conference. The conference will bring together representatives of the five projects under FCFA: IMPALA, AMMA-2050, Hy-CRISTAL, FRACTAL and UMFULA. On behalf of...
Kulima director in Zambia to finalise mainstreaming of climate resilience into Integrated Development Plans
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Zambia supporting district teams in mainstreaming climate resilience into Integrated Development Plans. As part of the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience, seven districts in Western Province, together with national and provincial...
Kulima director in Tanzania to assess livelihoods in the Rufiji delta
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Tanzania this week to undertake livelihoods analysis in the Rufiji delta. This is part of the Western Indian Ocean Deltas Exchange (WIODER) - a partnership of a number of organisations and programmes with interests in environmental and...
Kulima director in Malawi to continue UMFULA research
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Malawi this week, working with colleagues on the UMFULA (Uncertainty Reduction in Models for Understanding Development Applications) project. UMFULA is part of the Future Climate for Africa programme, and concerned with improving the use of...
Kulima director participating in DECCMA whole consortium meeting in Accra
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Accra this week to participate in the whole consortium meeting of the DEltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project. DECCMA is one project within the Collaborative Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia...
Kulima director in Zambia to train on mainstreaming climate resilience into Integrated Development Plans
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Mongu in Zambia this week to run a training course on mainstreaming climate resilience into Integrated Development Plans. Integrated Development Plans are spatial planning documents lasting 10 years which are developed by all districts. As...
DECCMA publishes new working paper on observed adaptations in deltas with input from Kulima
A review of observed adaptations in deltas has been published by the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) Adaptation team, which includes Dr Katharine Vincent. From a review of peer-reviewed literature the team found 122...
Kulima director in Kathmandu for CARIAA Annual Learning Review
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Kathmandu this week to participate in the 2017 Annual Learning Review for the Collaborative Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia programme. The meeting brings together researchers from the four CARIAA programmes that are...
Kulima director running climate resilience mainstreaming workshops in Zambia
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Zambia at the moment to run a series of climate resilience mainstreaming workshops. 14 districts in the Western and Southern provinces, forming part of the Barotse sub-basin of the Zambezi river, are mainstreaming their District and Ward...
Kulima director participating in workshop on climate information for development
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Cape Town this week for a workshop on communication, interpretation and use of climate information for development led by Professors Suraje Dessai (University of Leeds) and Coleen Vogel (University of the Witwatersrand). Katharine...
Kulima director attending International Conference on Climate Services in Cape Town
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Cape Town this week attending the International Conference on Climate Services. She will be presenting a poster in the session on "what can we learn from all the co-experiences"? The poster, entitled "From a clean slate...
Kulima director in Stellenbosch for UNESCO MOST Sustainability School
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Stellenbosch this week at the UNESCO Sustainability School. The school is part of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme, and is one of a number of such schools that has been held around the world. With the...
Kulima director participating in DECCMA whole consortium meeting in Southampton
Dr Katharine Vincent is in Southampton this week to participate in the whole consortium meeting of the DEltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project. DECCMA is one project within the Collaborative Adaptation Research in...