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This rapid evidence review maps out key donors and their programmes across Africa and the Asia-Pacific, with a specific focus on those that prioritise research and evidence in their efforts to address climate adaptation and resilience in ODA-eligible countries. Given its rapid nature, the review should be considered indicative rather than definitive.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy Programme (K4DD)
• 2024

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

This policy brief, developed for the UK’s (November) 2023 Global Food Security Summit, summarises insights from recent research from Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) in the Sahel, Syria and Yemen: mostly semi-arid areas subject to protracted crises and conflict, sometimes exacerbated by natural disasters, where food crises and food emergencies threaten.

• Syria
• Yemen
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

An internal FCDO Guidance Package designed to support colleagues, particularly FCDO Education Advisers, to better integrate education and climate change. Focused on ODA programming and development diplomacy, it provides a differentiated approach, clear tools, and links to further support.

• Governance
• Education
• 2025

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

his paper reviews the status of gender-inclusive design in relation to electric vehicles, with a focus on two-wheelers and three-wheelers. Where relevant, evidence on electric buses were also included. It explored potential barriers to women’s use of these vehicles, as well as opportunities for increased uptake and in turn, promoting greater women’s economic empowerment. The report aims to highlight how private companies can address these barriers and opportunities, including informing the E2W (Electric Two-Wheelers) and E3W (Electric Three-Wheelers) markets.

• Kenya
• Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2023

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

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 evaluates South Sudan's vulnerabilities to climate change, focusing on the need for robust disaster risk reduction (DRR) and early warning systems (EWS). It assesses existing climate adaptation policies, gaps in infrastructure, and challenges in inter-agency coordination. The report highlights the role of humanitarian actors in disaster response, and calls for better integration of climate information, capacity-building, and sustainable finance to strengthen resilience against climate-driven risks in the country.

• South Sudan
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Climate Science
• Water Resources Management
• Humanitarian
• Governance
• 2022