Non-peer-reviewed

2023

Watkiss, P. et al (contributing author K. Vincent). Chapter 4. Adaptation Finance Gap. In United Nations Environment Programme. 2023. Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Underfinanced. Underprepared. Inadequate investment and planning on climate adaptation leaves world exposed. Nairobi, 112p.

2022

Keen, S., Lorimer, E. and Vincent, K. 2022. Finance for adaptation at the level of local government in South Africa. National study under the project “Strengthen National Climate Policy Implementation:
Comparative Empirical Learning & Creating Linkage to Climate Finance”, 67p.

Leavy, J., Gould, C., Klema, M., McConnachie, M., Venable, L. and Vincent, K. 2022. Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Change: Synthesis of the 2021 BRACC Evaluation. BRACC programme.

Venable, L., Brooks, N. and Vincent, K. 2022. Lessons for measuring resilience from the BRACC programme. BRACC programme.

Huang-Y.S. and Vincent, K. 2022. Programme design for Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Change. BRACC programme.

Vincent, K., Venable, L., Sullivan, C. and Meador, E. 2022. Gender equality and social inclusion in PROSPER: Intervention design and impacts. BRACC programme.

Vincent, K., Manandhar, S., Soriano Quevedo, A.S., Vaughan, C., Fateha Ahmed, K. and Yesyrkenov, Y. 2022. Transforming weather, water and climate services: Synthesis Report. World Bank and Climate Investment Funds.

2021

Vincent, K. 2021. Redefining “business as usual” with a gender lens: Designing and implementing gender-sensitive climate services projects with funders and implementers. WISER, 8p.

Murray, B., Izzi, V., Smith, L., Roberts, E. and Vincent, K. 2021. ESRC – FCDO Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research Programme – Phase 3 Evaluation. LTS International, 113p.

Araujo, J., Bouwer, R., Harvey, B., Huang, Y.S., Iipinge, K.N., Kashaigili, J.J., Mackay, B., Marsham, J., McClure, A. and Vincent, K. 2021. Promoting Southern Leadership within Climate Research Programmes. Future Climate For Africa, 10p.

2020

Araujo, J., Bouwer, R., Carter, S., Graham, R., Harvey, B., Huang, Y-S., Marsham, J., Rouhaud, E. and Vincent, K. 2020. How collective learning can promote the uptake and use of climate research. Future Climate For Africa, 6p.

Araujo, J., Harvey, B., Huang, Y-S., McClure, A., Owiti, Z., Rouhaud, E., Roux, J-P., Vincent, K. and Visman, E. 2020. A critical reflection on learning from the FCFA programme. Future Climate For Africa, 88p.

Baker, E., McNamara, L., Mackay, B., and Vincent, K. 2020. How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia: A guide for researchers, practitioners and communicators. Climate and Development Knowledge Network and Future Climate for Africa, 60p.

Vincent, K., Gerhard, M. and Scott, C. 2020. Designing gender-responsive projects for climate finance. Southern African Climate Finance Partnership, 13p.

Bharwani, S., Butterfield, R., Cornforth, R., Jarvie, J., Knight, S.W., Larquemin, A., Mercer, S., Percy, F., Plumpton, H., Vincent, K. and Visman, E. 2020. Enabling climate science use to better support resilience and adaptation practice. Rapid evidence assessment for the CLARE programme, 79p.

Carter, S., Steynor, A., Vincent, K., Visman, E. and Waagsaether, K.L. 2020. Building blocks for co-producing climate services WISER and Future Climate For Africa, 8p.

Dougill, A., Mkwambisi, D., Vincent, K., Archer, E., Bhave, A., Henriksson Malinga, R., Mataya, D., Mittal, N. and Tembo-Nhlema, D. 2020. How can we improve the use of information for a climate-resilient Malawi? Future Climate For Africa, 8p.

2019

Harvey, B., Cochrane, L., Jones, L. and Vincent, K. 2019. Programme design for climate-resilient development. A review of key functions. Report produced for IDRC.

Carter, S., Steynor, A., Vincent, K., Visman, E. and Waagsaether, K.L. 2019. Manual-Co-production in African weather and climate services. WISER and Future Climate For Africa, 136p.

Surminski, S., Barnes, J. and Vincent, K. 2019. Insurance as a catalyst for government climate planning? A framework for analysing drivers and barriers, tested against evidence emerging from Sub-Saharan Africa. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 359 and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 327, 31p.

Koelle, B., Scodanibbio, L., Vincent, K., Harvey, B., van Aalst, M., Rigg, S., Ward, N. and Curl, M. 2019. A guide to effective collaboration and learning in consortia. Building resilience to rising climate risks. BRACED. 52p.

Tembo-Nhlema, D., Vincent, K. and Henriksson Malinga, R. 2019. Creating useful and usable weather and climate information-Insights from Participatory Scenario Planning in Malawi. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 357 and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 325, 31p.

Currie-Alder, B., Cundill Kemp, G., Scodanibbio, L. Vincent, K., Prakash, A. and Nathe, N. 2019. Building climate resilience in Africa and Asia: Lessons on organisation, management and collaboration in research consortia. CARIAA Working Paper #24, 44p.

Bhave, A.G., Vincent, K. and Mkwambisi, D. 2019. Projecting water availability in Lake Malawi and the Shire River basin. Future Climate For Africa Country Brief, 8p.

Prakash, A., Cundill, G., Scodanibbio, L., Vincent, K. and Nathe, N. 2019. Climate Change Adaptation Research for Impact. CARIAA Working Paper #22, 36p.

Arto, I., Cazcarro, I., Markandya, A., Hazra, S., Bhattacharya, R.N., Adjei, P. and Vincent, K. 2019. Climate change and the economic future of deltas in Africa and Asia. DECCMA Policy Brief, 8p.

2018

Curran, P., Dougill, A.J., Pardoe, J. and Vincent, K. 2018. Policy coherence for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Policy Brief.

Lotter, D., Davis, C., Archer, A., Vincent, K., Pardoe, J., Tadross, M., Landman, W., Stuart-Hill, S. and Jewitt, G. 2018. Climate information needs in southern Africa. A review Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper no 355, 54p.

Katharine Vincent for the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change, 2018. Gender responsive framework for implementing the Paris Agreement in Africa. 17p. (revised to take into account the release of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan).

Curran, P., Dougill, A.J., Pardoe, J. and Vincent, K. 2018. Policy coherence for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. Policy brief, 8p.

Lotter, D., Davis, C., Archer, A., Vincent, K., Pardoe, J., Tadross, M., Landman, W., Stuart-Hill, S. and Jewitt, G. 2018. Climate information needs in southern Africa. A review Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper no 355, 54p.

2017

Vincent, Katharine, 2017. Transformational adaptation: A review of examples from 4 deltas to inform the design of DECCMA’s Adaptation Policy Trajectories. DECCMA Working Paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation, IDRC Project Number 107642.

Katharine Vincent for the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change, 2017. Gender-responsive framework for implementing the Paris Agreement in Africa, 14p.

Katharine Vincent for the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change, 2017. Gender analysis of the Paris Agreement and implications for Africa-briefing note, 5p.

Katharine Vincent for the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change, 2017. Gender analysis of the Paris Agreement and implications for Africa, 15p.

Suckall, N., Tompkins, E.L., Hutton, C., Lazar, A., Kebede, A., Nicholls, R., Vincent, K., Allan, A., Chapman, A. 2017. Adaptation policy trajectories. DECCMA Working Paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation, IDRC Project Number 107642.

Davis-Reddy, C.L. and Vincent, K. (eds) 2017. Climate risk and vulnerability: A handbook for southern Africa (2nd edition). CSIR, Pretoria, 202p.

Tompkins, E.L., Suckall, N., Vincent, K., Rahman, R., Mensah, A., Ghosh, T, and Hazra, S. 2017. Observed adaptation in deltas. DECCMA Working Paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation, IDRC Project Number 107642.

England, M., Dougill, A., Stringer, L., Vincent, K., Pardoe, J., Kalaba, F., Mkwambisi, D., and Namaganda, E. 2017. Climate change adaptation and cross-sectoral policy coherence in southern AfricaCentre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper 303 and Sustainability Research Institute Paper 108, 22p.

Vincent, K. 2017. Gender, agriculture and climate change in Malawi. UMFULA Briefing Paper for the Future Climate for Africa programme, 6p.

2016

Chapman, A., Tompkins, E.L., Vincent, K., and Day, S. 2016. A framework for the design and evaluation of adaptation pathways in large river deltas. DECCMA Working Paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation, IDRC Project Number 107642, 33p.

Besson, S., Goodman, D., Shuford, L.S., Vincent, K. and Cull, T. 2016. Risk Financing for Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Extreme Climate Facility (XCF) Briefing Paper on Pillar 1 of the R&D Programme: Defining access modalities and eligibility criteria for XCF, 25p.

Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy; van Garderen, Emma Archer; Conway, Declan, Dalin, Carole; Deryng, Delphine; Dorling, Steve; Fallon, Amy and Landman, Willem, 2016. Improving effective use of seasonal forecasts in South Africa. SAHEWS Project Note 1. Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy, 2016. Scoping report on adaptation initiatives in Bangladesh, Ghana and India. DECCMA Working Paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation, IDRC Project Number 107642.

2015

Lazar, A., Nicholls, R.J., Payo, A., Adams, H., Mortreux, C., Suckall, N., Vincent, K., Sugata, H., Amisigo, B.A., Rahman, M., Haque, A., Adger, N., Hill, C., 2015. A method to assess migration and adaptation in deltas: A preliminary fast track assessment, DECCMA Working Paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation, IDRC Project Number 107642, 29p.

Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, 2015. Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Mozambique: Past, present and future. Report of an ACCRA workshop 30th September and a stakeholder meeting 1st October, Maputo. Produced for the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance, 23p.

Adjei-Nsiah, S., Dieye, A. M., El Mzouri, E., Gueye, B., Gueye,  C., Habtamu, A. A., Hounkponou, S., Khattabi, A., Mahoo, H., Majule, A. E., Mapfumo, P., Obando, J., Ouma. G. O., Rabeharisoa, L.,  Ranaivonasy, J., Sonwa, D. J. 2015. Institutions and Adaptation. Lessons Learned from the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Program. CARIAA Working Paper no. 2. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada and UK Aid, London, United Kingdom, 32p (Edited by K. Vincent and M. van Epp)

Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group, 2015. ABCG project documenting human responses to weather and climate in Africa. Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society and World Wildlife Fund on behalf of ABCG, Washington DC, 34p. (Edited by Kulima Integrated Development Solutions)

Vincent, K. and Cull, T., 2015. DECCMA’s approach to the incorporation of gender. DECCMA Working Paper, Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation, IDRC Project Number 107642, 19p.

Vincent, K., 2015. Opportunities for integrating gender and social equity issues into the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) project. ODI, London, 28p.

Vincent, K. and Cull, T., 2015. Resource Guide for the Training of Trainers for Climate Risk Adaptation Facilitators and District Planning Officers, Training Manual Prepared for the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience, Zambia, 125p.

Vincent, K., Cull T., Chanika, D., Dougill, A.J., Stringer, L.C., Dixon, J., and Mkwambisi, D. 2015. Using weather and climate information to make robust policy and planning decisions in Malawi. CDKN and FCFA, London, 4p.

2014

Vincent, K., 2014. Climate Change Mainstreaming Guideline for the Water and Sanitation Sector, African Development Bank, Abidjan, 95p.

Vincent, K., 2014. Background paper: Climate Change and the Water and Sanitation Sector. African Development Bank, Abidjan, 25p.

UNEP, 2014: The Adaptation Gap Report 2014. UNDP, Nairobi (contributing author Katharine Vincent to Chapter 4 – Technology Gaps)

Vincent, K., Dougill, A.J., Dixon, J., Stringer, L.C., Cull, T., Mkwambisi, D.D., and Chanika, D. 2014. Actual and Potential Weather and Climate Information Needs for Development Planning in Malawi. Results of a Future Climate for Africa Pilot Case Study. Produced for the CDKN FCFA Pilot Case Studies, 54p.

Vincent, Katharine, Dougill, Andrew J., Mkwambisi, David D., Cull, Tracy, Stringer, Lindsay and Chanika, Diana. 2014: Analysis of existing weather and climate information for Malawi.  Paper prepared for the Future Climate For Africa pilot case studies, 18p.

Vincent, K., 2014. Developing climate change and social inclusion (especially gender) strategies. Paper produced for the Zambia Economic Advocacy Programme (ZEAP), 63p.

Oxford Policy Management (including team member K. Vincent), 2014. Baseline Study and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Phase II of the PPCR (Zambia). Oxford Policy Management, Oxford, 161p.

Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, 2014: Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis of the Lamu Sea/ Landscape. Report produced for WWF Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, 94p.

2013

PROVIA, 2013 (including authors Tracy Cull and Katharine Vincent). PROVIA Guidance on assessing vulnerability, impacts and adaptation to climate change. Consultation Document. UNEP, Nairobi.

Kulima, CSIR and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 2013. Climate change health, agriculture and disasters analysis in Mozambique. CDKN, London.

African Development Bank (with contributing author K. Vincent), 2013. African Development Report 2012: Towards green growth in Africa. African Development Bank, Tunis, 178p.

2012

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2012. Adaptive Social Protection: Making concepts a reality. Guidance notes for practitioners. Adaptive Social Protection programme at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton.

Vincent, Katharine. 2012. Review of Robbins, M (2011) Crops and carbon: paying farmers to combat climate change. London, Earthscan. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 19, 121.

2011

Vincent, K., Cull, T., Aggarwal, P.K., Lau, C., Kristjanson, P., Phartiyal, P., and Parvin, G. 2011.  Gender, climate change, agriculture, and food security: A CCAFS Training-of-Trainers Manual to prepare South Asian rural women to adapt to climate change. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS): Cali (Colombia).

Vincent, Katharine; Joubert, Alec and Cull, Tracy. 2011. Climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and South Africa’s engagement with the climate change issue. Paper prepared for the Centre for Development and Enterprise, Johannesburg.

Cull, Tracy and Vincent, Katharine. 2011. Report of the ACCRA Regional Conference, 26 – 28th September 2011, Silver Springs Hotel, Nairobi. Report prepared by Kulima for the ACCRA programme.

Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy and Joubert, Alec. 2011. Technology needs for adaptation in southern Africa: Does operationalisation of the UNFCCC and associated finance mechanisms prioritise hardware over software and orgware? In L. Christiansen, A. Olhoff and S. Trærup (eds.): Technologies for Adaptation: Perspectives and Practical Experiences, UNEP Risø Centre, Roskilde, p69-79.

Cull, Tracy and Vincent, Katharine. 2011. Migration and Global Environmental Change: Drylands Workshop. 10-11 March, Johannesburg.  London: Foresight.

Stockholm Environment Institute, updated by Kulima Integrated Development Solutions. 2011. Climate screening of key Macedonian policies and strategies and recommendations for adaptation. Skopje: UNDP.

Vincent, Katharine; Joubert, Alec; Cull, Tracy and Magrath, John. 2011: Overcoming the barriers: How to ensure food production in a changing climate. Oxford: Oxfam.

Jones, Harry, with Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy; Freeland, Nicholas; Koch, Josee; Pedra, Danya; White, Philip and Rook, John. 2011. Learning lessons from the policy influence of the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP). ODI Research Report, September 2011, London: ODI. 71p.

Vincent, Katharine. 2011. “Sustaining equitable progress: Gender equality in the context of a changing climate” Background paper for the 2011 Human Development Report, New York: UNDP.

Hecht, Joy E., Kahata, Jane and Vincent, Katharine. 2011. Costs imposed by climate change in three ecoregions of East Africa. Report prepared by IRG Washington DC for USAID East Africa.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2011. Review of Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day. Progress in Development Studies 11, 165-166.

2010

Archer, Emma; Cull, Tracy; Davis, Claire and Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Education, capacity building and awareness chapter in South Africa’s Second National Communication to the UNFCCC (Draft). Cape Town: South African National Botanical Institute.

Davidson, Brett; Kansilanga, Chipiliro and Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Cash transfers create wealth. Mail and Guardian Special Supplement: A Transfer out of Poverty, p1, 17th September 2010

Clover, Jeanette and Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Natural Hazards. In Fiott, D. (ed). Climate change and security in Africa: Vulnerability Report. Published by members of the Africa, Climate Change, Environment and Security Dialogue Process, p18-25. Brussels: Mariaga.

Orr, Jennifer; Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2010. Swaziland Old Age Grant Impact Assessment. Report prepared for HelpAge International, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme and UNICEF.

Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Is index-linked weather insurance sustainable in the long term? Wahenga Comment.

Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Innovations in administering social protection programmes. Innovations in administering social protection programmes. Poverty in Focus no 22, p30-32. Brasilia: UNDP-IPC.

Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Reflections on the financial services industry and implications for social cash transfers. Wahenga Comment.

Vincent, Katharine. 2010. Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: Lessons learned and opportunities for Africa. Frontiers of Social Protection brief number 3. Johannesburg: Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2010. Climate change through the lens of vulnerability and human rights. Keynote paper prepared for the UN Social and Human Development Cluster Meeting on Climate Change and Population, Health, Gender and Youth (pre-event of the Seventh African Development Forum). Addis Ababa: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (African Centre for Gender and Social Development).

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2010. Ten Seeds: How cellphones led to the blossoming of women’s farming cooperatives in Lesotho. Mail and Guardian Special Supplement: A Transfer out of Poverty, p2-3, 17th September 2010.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2010. Review of “Seasons of Hunger: fighting cycles of quiet starvation among the world’s rural poor” by Stephen Devereux, Bapu Vaitla and Samuel Hauenstein Swan (2008), Pluto Press, London. Disasters 34 (S1) : S124-S125.

Vincent, Katharine; Wanjiru, Lucy; Aubry, Adeline; Merson, Andre; Nyandiga, Charles; Cull, Tracy and Banda, Khamarunga. 2010. Gender, climate change and community-based adaptation: A guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation projects and programmes. New York: UNDP Environment and Energy Group, Bureau for Development Policy.

Vincent, Katharine with others 2010. Guidebook on mapping climate change vulnerability and impacts scenarios for planning purposes at sub-national level. United Nations Development Programme New York: UNDP Environment and Energy Group, Bureau for Development Policy.

2009

Cull, Tracy and Vincent, Katharine. 2009. The cost of fighting hunger. NGO Pulse

Vincent, Katharine. 2009. Training network and capacity building considerations in promoting and developing wider social protection in the IGAD region. Djibouti: Intergovernmental Authority on Development.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2009. Inventory of Disaster Risk Management initiatives and lessons learned in climate change adaptation for agriculture, forestry and fisheries in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. Rome: FAO.

Vincent, Katharine and Cull, Tracy. 2009. Climate change and food security mapping in the Southern African Development Community. Copenhagen: Danish Development Research Network.

Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy and Freeland, Nicholas. 2009. “Ever upwardly mobile”: How do cellphones benefit vulnerable people? Lessons from farming cooperatives in Lesotho. Wahenga Brief 16. Johannesburg: Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme.

2008

Pearson, Anna; Samson, Michael and Vincent, Katharine. 2008. Concept paper on an old age social pension in Malawi. Economic Policy Research Institute: Cape Town, and HelpAge International: London.

Samson, Michael; Vincent, Katharine and MacQuene, Kenneth. 2008. Social protection and the Protracted Relief Programme 2: Mission Report. Harare: Management, Technical and Learning Committee and DFID Zimbabwe.

Vincent, Katharine. 2008. Climate change – what will it mean for men and women in rural drylands? Haramata, bulletin of the drylands 53. London: IIED.

Vincent, Katharine; Devereux, Stephen and Tanner, Thomas. 2008. Climate Change, Food Security and Disaster Risk Management. Issues paper for the Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, Rome: FAO.

Vogel, C.H and Vincent, Katharine. 2008. Adaptation in southern Africa: actors, constraints and opportunities. Scoping study commissioned by the UK Department for International Development.

Vogel, Coleen H; Vincent, Katharine; and Scott Drimie. 2008. Food security in southern Africa: old problem, new challenges? Dewpoint newsletter 8 (5) : 1-2.

2007

Vincent, Katharine. 2007. Is it time to stop treating Africa as a victim? Scidev.net portal.

2006

Corbera, E., Conway, D., Goulden, M. and Vincent, K. 2006. Climate Change in Africa: Linking Science and Policy for Adaptation. Workshop Report, Tyndall Centre, Norwich.

2004

Vincent, Katharine. 2004. Creating an index of social vulnerability to climate change for Africa. Tyndall Working Paper 56. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research: Norwich.

2001

Vincent, Katharine. 2001. Involving the retail and service sub-sectors in CSR activities. Scoping study for the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Europe (Geneva)

Katharine Vincent for the African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change, 2017Gender-responsive framework for implementing the Paris Agreement in Africa, 14p.