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This guidance note guides practitioners on integrating climate considerations into social protection, emphasising its importance, proposing adaptation strategies, and providing key resources.Climate change will reshape the challenges social protection policies address, necessitating significant adjustments.Social protection can help mitigate climate-induced poverty, support resilience and adaptation, and contribute to environmental sustainability. To remain effective, programs must expand coverage, adapt to mass climate shocks, and include vulnerable groups like migrants and urban populations.

• Bangladesh
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Niger
• Somalia
• Zambia
• Social Protection
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2023

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 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

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 report outlines key initiatives by international actors advancing the climate change and social protection agenda, prepared for the FCDO under Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility(STAAR). It highlights the focus areas of major donor and UN agencies leading efforts in this space, detailing their work, key initiatives, publications, and events. While not exhaustive, it aims to inform and support the development of social protection policies and programs that address the increasing challenges posed by climate change.

• Lebanon
• Jordan
• Tunisia
• Mongolia
• Malawi
• Kenya
• Ethiopia
• Zambia
• Nepal
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2023

This report outlines the status of international public climate finance going to social protection, focusing on three categories of climate finance providers, bilateral, multilateral development banks, and the climate funds. It proposes options for more efficient and targeted use of climate finance for social protection. The report reviewed existing literature that looks at climate finance and social protection and assessed the climate finance strategies and portfolios of the major international public climate finance providers.

• United Kingdom
• Social Protection
• Climate Finance
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

This policy brief was produced by the Ending Violence against Women and Children (VAWC) Helpdesk, as part of the UKʼs What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls: Impact at Scale programme (ʻWhat Works IIʼ). The funds were managed by the International Rescue Committee. The policy brief was written by Francesca Rhodes of Care International UK, Naomi Clugston of Social Development Direct and Erika Fraser of Social Development Direct. It builds on an accompanying report that details contributions by practitioners and experts working at the intersection between climate change and GBV.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• 2024

This report, authored by Mairi Dupar, Elvina Henriette and Eric Hubbard, explores the existing and potential role of NBS-GI in disaster risk management and climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as wider development objectives. The research focuses on the application, financing and efficiency of NBS-GI in African contexts, as well as on the motivations for selecting NBS-GI investments in Africa.

• Tanzania
• Sudan
• Kenya
• Rwanda
• Mali
• Senegal
• Ethiopia
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Zambia
• Uganda
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• 2023

This report prepared by Paul Watkiss and Dr Kristie L. Ebi in December 2022 looks at changing climate, including changes in the mean and extremes of temperature and precipitation and sea level rise, is affecting human health, well-being, and health systems. Changing weather patterns are altering the population burden of climate-sensitive injuries, illnesses, and deaths, and affecting health systems and access to health services. The health impacts of climate change can be direct, ecosystem-mediated, or indirect through human or social responses to climate change.

• Health
• Climate Finance
• 2022

In April 2021, the WOW helpdesk published guidance ahead of COP26 to help the UK government better understand the differential effects of climate change and support the inclusion of women in climate action. The guidance brought together latest thinking about how women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and climate change intersect and included a primer document and briefing on women and the net-zero economy.

• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2021