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This evidence digest includes a guest blog on prioritising disability inclusion in climate action, and the latest evidence and guidance on disability inclusion, at time of writing. This includes programme learning, the impacts of COVID-19, and finance for disability inclusion.

• Zimbabwe
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2021

This report summarises the evidence on the gendered impacts of transition to a low carbon economy.

• Low Carbon Growth and Mitigation
• 2022

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

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

This policy brief written by Paul Watkiss and John Ward in 2021, intends to inform the technical support for the Adaptation Action Coalition. Climate resilient infrastructure is a priority area for adaptation and resilience because of the longevity of most infrastructure and the high risks of lock-in. The brief covers both i) the climate-smart design of planned infrastructure to be developed over the next decade and beyond, and ii) the growing need for new infrastructure to specifically target rising climate risks.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
• Governance
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• 2021

This report asks what more can be done to address food security in low-income economies that are frequently subjected to conflict, political instability, macroeconomic imbalances and natural disasters. The report focuses on 14 countries: the 10+1 group, which includes 10 countries –Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – and 1 region: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger.

• Afghanistan
• Central African Republic
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Ethiopia
• Nigeria
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Yemen
• Burkina Faso
• Chad
• Mali
• Niger
• Humanitarian
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This brief highlights how climate change disproportionately affects women and girls due to existing gender inequalities. Social protection systems can enhance their resilience and promote gender equality. Key recommendations include collecting gender-disaggregated data, conducting gender-specific climate risk analyses, and fostering women’s leadership in climate resilience planning. Collaboration with civil society and local actors is essential to integrating gender-responsive approaches into social protection policies and strengthening women’s capacity to cope with climate challenges.

• Gender Equity
• Social Protection
• Humanitarian
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

This report recommends investing in water-saving measures, traditional soil and water conservation techniques, agroforestry, livestock integration, and organic farming. It also suggests enhancing governance of land and natural resources, testing nature-based restoration in degraded areas, and building data infrastructure for climate-resilient agriculture.

• Morocco
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2023

Conflict increases vulnerability to climate change, i.e. climate impacts are often exacerbated in conflict settings. Humanitarian programmes, operating in fragile and conflict-affected regions, that fail to account for the effects of current and future climate change scenarios run the risk of implementing ineffective or maladaptive interventions. The CLEAN Helpdesk provided SSHARP with support on two pieces of work which assessed climate risks to and from the programme and provided options for further climate mainstreaming and ICF allocations for the programme.

• South Sudan
• Humanitarian
• 2025

This WOW Helpdesk query identifies potential economic opportunities for urban women and youth in the green-growth and low-carbon sectors of the economy in Mozambique. A desk review of literature on green growth and green jobs and skills for urban women and youth was complemented by interviews with one key informant based in Mozambique. The evidence was presented and discussed at a consultation with representatives from FCDO and MUVA.

• Mozambique
• Gender Equity
• urban development
• 2021