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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.
Link- Bangladesh
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Niger
- Somalia
- Zambia
- Social Protection
- Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
- 2023
The blog written by written by Zac Lowndes-Bull, Engagement Manager Climate Finance, Pegasys, in collaboration with the STAAR Facility discusses the growing interest in integrating social protection measures into climate change responses. It highlights recent international developments, such as the formation of the Loss and Damage Fund and the Global Shield Initiative, which increasingly consider social protection in their strategies.
Link- Social Protection
- Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
- 2024
This review of the Jordan Humanitarian, Inclusion and Protection (HIP) portfolio found that International Climate Finance (ICF) allocations for humanitarian programmes is currently unclear on issues relating to refugee populations and displaced peoples. Climate impacts in Jordan are disproportionately felt by vulnerable groups, particularly refugees and displaced peoples. Work delivered identified opportunities to mainstream climate considerations into the programme, and highlighted evidence-based opportunities for ICF spend and results.
PDF- Jordan
- Humanitarian
- 2024
This report consolidates findings from action-oriented research partnerships conducted by the WOW programme with Primark, Waitrose, and the Ethical Tea Partnership in Pakistan, Kenya and Malawi respectively.
Link- Pakistan
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
- Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
- 2022
The purpose of the primer is to help the UK government in its thinking around how to better understand the differential effects of climate change and support the inclusion of women in climate action. The primer brings together the latest thinking about how women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and climate change intersect, specifically how climate action can support women’s economic empowerment and how women’s economic empowerment can contribute to climate and environmental outcomes.
Link- Gender Equity
- Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
- 2021
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.
Link- Afghanistan
- Gender Equity
- SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
- 2023
This primer brings together the latest thinking about how women’s economic empowerment and climate change intersect. Together with the complementary briefing on women and the Net Zero economy, it was produced ahead of COP26 to support the UK government to better understand the differential effects of climate change and the inclusion of women in climate action.
Link- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
- 2021
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.
Link- Gender Equity
- Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
- 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.
PDF- South Sudan
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Climate Science
- Water Resources Management
- Humanitarian
- Governance
- 2022
The policy brief "How Can Africa Manage the Transboundary Climate Risks It Faces?" examines how climate change impacts and related actions in one nation can create risks that extend beyond borders, termed transboundary climate risks (TCARs). These risks can hinder economic progress, disrupt trade and food security, and affect infrastructure across Africa.
Link- Somalia
- Climate Resilience and Adaptation
- SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
- 2023
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