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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

This recent study from SPARC offers insights from a real-time study of people’s lives in Somalia during 2020–2022, looking at how crisis-affected people take their own anticipatory action.

• Somalia
• Humanitarian
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This report considers how disability inclusion is integrated into climate justice frameworks and environmental and climate risk assessment processes. It concludes with key considerations for ensuring people with disabilities are included in analysis of risk and do no harm in climate, energy, and environment programmes.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2023

FCDO’s Position Paper sets out the case for taking a more integrated approach to tackling education and climate and environmental change. It identifies a two-way relationship whereby climate and environmental change disrupt education access and systems, but quality education, especially for girls, leads to better climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation. The paper argues that without making education systems resilient to climate and environmental change, we will not achieve education goals.

• United Kingdom
• Education
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Gender Equity
• 2022

This K4DD Rapid Evidence Review explores the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on conflict in the Sahel, with focus on Mali and Niger. It goes beyond discussions looking at direct causes of conflict, to focus on the indirect impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on conflict and violence – e.g. how it can exacerbate the drivers of conflict, and the conditions that shape whether, when, where, and what form of conflict will break out.

• Mali
• Niger
• Social Protection
• Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy Programme (K4DD)
• 2025

This report provides a rapid review of the emerging evidence on best practice of disability inclusion in nature-based solutions programming.There is an increasing focus on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) to address the climate crisis. Whilst there is increasing awareness of the importance of disability inclusion in climate action, there is limited evidence available on disability inclusion and nature-based solutions programming.

• Nature based solutions
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2022

This review is the first in a series of three reports prepared in support of a Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) evidence and policy clinic on public financial management (PFM). The first part of the review addresses the proactive management of fiscal risks, public asset management, and liabilities associated with climate change for PFM.

• Finance and Insurance
• Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy Programme (K4DD)
• 2024

This K4DD Rapid Evidence Review provides an overview of the current understanding of the attribution of climate change in Vietnam. It draws on an expanding evidence base that includes academic and grey literature. The literature identified presents a complex and multifaceted picture with regional variation across the country and in the wider East and South East Asian region.

• Vietnam
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy Programme (K4DD)
• 2024

Using examples from Afghanistan, this research outlines 10 traps that practitioners and donors working in fragile and conflict-affected regions must avoid if aid is to engage effectively with context.

• Afghanistan
• Gender Equity
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023