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The guidance note was prepared by Dr Nicholas Brooks, as a review of the FCDO Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) for southern Africa and incorporates some learning from this review of the CRIDF programme. The guidance note presents a set of recommendations for the provision and use of climate information to inform resilience and adaptation planning, programming and implementation. The focus is on climate change information to inform longer-term resilience and adaptation, rather than short-term weather and seasonal forecast information.

• South Africa
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Climate Science
• Governance
• Water Resources Management
• Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
• Finance and Insurance
• 2021

The CLEAN Helpdesk integrates gender equity, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) through all technical assistance (TA) requests to advance more effective and sustainable climate, environment and nature (CEN) outcomes. This note captures findings on how we have mainstreamed GEDSI through the programme and consortium, significantly increasing our level of ambition, and avoiding the pitfalls of GEDSI becoming a ‘tick-box exercise’ or a ‘nice to have’. Read more about our GEDSI successes here.

• United Kingdom
• Gender Equity
• Disability inclusion
• Climate resilience
• Governance
• Social Inclusion
• 2025

This WOW Helpdesk query provides the findings of key issues around the economic empowerment of women, people with disabilities and other excluded groups. This rapid desk-based research will support interventions of the Rapid Response Facility (RRF) - drawing on what is publicly available from online searches. The findings show that there is very little published evidence around people with disabilities and the energy transition, but many points stated on WEE also apply to the economic empowerment of people with disabilities.

• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2021

This report offers a series of recommendations to be considered by BLRS to ensure that women (and other excluded groups) equally benefit from irrigation investments. Documentary evidence from Syria and elsewhere recognises a current dearth of studies on women’s involvement in irrigation in Syria. Independent and rigorous evaluations of GEDSI and irrigation interventions are needed to understand what works and what does not work. These are lacking not just in Syria and the MENA region, but globally.

• Syria
• Gender Equity
• Water Resources Management
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• 2025

In this brief, the Nature Facility provides recommendations to FCDO in Uganda and DRC for programming and policy engagement priorities with joint conservation, development, and climate change objectives. Recommendations are in line with the requirements of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and the “nature for climate and people” pillar of the UK’s International Climate Finance (ICF) strategy.

• Uganda
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2024

This query provides an accessible review of the evidence to support efforts to strengthens gender considerations, women’s opportunities and economic empowerment within the FCDO and wider UK government response to acute food insecurity and famine prevention.

• Humanitarian
• Gender Equity
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2023

This tool guides FCDO staff in integrating five core environmental principles—integration, prevention, rectification at source, polluter pays, and precautionary—into policy development. It provides a structured framework with targeted questions to ensure environmental considerations are embedded in decision-making processes. After internal trials, the Energy, Climate and Environment Directorate implemented the tool across the FCDO on November 1, 2023, aligning with the statutory duty's commencement.

• United Kingdom
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Nature Facility
• 2023

This is the first edition of CLEAN Helpdesk newsletter. Over the past year, the CLEAN Helpdesk has supported UK government departments with technical assistance to integrate climate and nature across ODA-funded programmes from Zambia, Jordan, South Sudan and more countries. Follow this link to view the complete newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/707e69d22e6c/cleandesk-newsletter-4455064

• Zambia
• United Kingdom
• Jordan
• South Sudan
• Syria
• Humanitarian
• Social Protection
• Education
• Climate resilience
• 2025

This FCDO document includes a summary overview of ICF Financing within FCDO, and how Education Advisers can apply this to their programmes (both new and older programmes retrospectively).

• United Kingdom
• Education
• Climate Finance
• International Climate Finance
• 2022

This report which was prepared by Sam Barret offers insights into enhancing the integration of climate resilience into FCDO's social protection portfolio. It reviews case studies on climate-adaptive social protection in various countries, examining programmes that support cash transfers, climate-smart public works, and scalable safety nets. Recommendations focus on aligning social protection efforts with climate adaptation objectives, using tools like the International Climate Finance criteria, and implementing shock-responsive systems to improve resilience for vulnerable communities.

• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Bangladesh
• Tanzania
• Rwanda
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Social Protection
• Humanitarian
• Governance
• Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
• Water Resources Management
• 2023