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The USAID/Uganda Biodiversity for Resilience (B4R) Activity supports the National Forestry Authority to conserve Central Forest Reserve water towers, including in Karamoja.

• 09/14/2023
• Shannon Vasamsetti

USAID launched the five-year, $32 million Resilient Waters Program in 2018 to improve transboundary natural resources management and increase the water security and resilience of communities and ecosystems

• 06/01/2022
• Wendy Putnam

Over the past decade, our understanding of how climate change affects conflict and security has advanced considerably. Yet, how to best address the overlapping challenges of climate change, conflict, and human security remains an open question.

• 05/25/2022
• Daniel Abrahams

Senegalese youth are repairing degraded mangrove forests. In the process, they are empowering fishing communities to safeguard their own livelihoods ─ and fight climate change.

• 04/13/2022
• Winrock International

Inside the protected area of Menabe Antimena is Madagascar's largest dry forest--45% of which has disappeared in only the last 10 years due to massive deforestation, fires, migration, illegal maize cultivation, corruption and unscrupulous private interests. Menabe Antimena is one of the many critical ecosystems that the USAID Hay Tao project is working to protect.

• 08/26/2021
• Mihary Randrianarivelo

Since 1991, USAID has been investing in actions that help the Agency in understanding climate change risks and opportunities to reduce vulnerabilities.

• 12/05/2019
• Stephan Hardeman

According to the United Nations, close to 1.7 billion people – almost 25% of the world’s population - rely on forests for shelter, livelihoods, water, food, and fuel security. Forests renew our air supply, as they take in large amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

• 05/22/2019
• SERVIR Global

“The water is pushing very hard on our islands and communities,” recounted the Bonthe Deputy Mayor, during a recent meeting with USAID staff in the southwestern district of Sierra Leone. His description captures the profound impacts that climate change is having on coastal communities.

• 04/29/2019
• Julia Bradley-Cook

Face-to-face participatory processes, merging weather station observations with satellite data, and bridging the supply and demand side of climate information services (CIS) are some of the promising options for improving CIS.

• 02/12/2019
• Isabela Barriga

On Thursday, October 12, 2017 Climatelinks and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) hosted a Twitter chat to explore the benefits of integrating biodiversity conservation and adaptation.

• 10/27/2017
• Katherine Cunningham

A recent assessment of non-climate funded USAID programs found that including climate change in solicitations resulted in actions to manage climate risk or address climate change during program implementation about half the time.

• 10/10/2017
• Climatelinks

Through climate risk management — a structured process to assess and address risks and identify opportunities — USAID can improve the impact and sustainability of its efforts, safeguarding billions of dollars in investments.

• 06/15/2017
• Climatelinks

Facing an unusually heavy rainy season, an ongoing cholera outbreak and growing concern about the spread of malaria and other diseases, the Government of Mozambique is turning to USAID for strategies to address climate and weather risks in health sector decisions.

• 04/24/2017
• Climatelinks

To help decision makers target resources to areas of Sub-Saharan Africa where they are needed most, USAID is supporting a hotspots mapping initiative to identify places where the potential for weather variability and climate change pose the gravest threat to human health.

• 04/19/2017
• Climatelinks

A new report, Risk Expands but Opportunity Awaits: Emerging Evidence on Climate Change and Health in Africa by USAID’s Adaptation, Thought Leadership, and Assessments (ATLAS) project captures health risks associated with climate and weather variability.

• 04/13/2017
• Climatelinks