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This is the first blog in a two-part series detailing the Climate Finance Readiness Program (CF Ready), a program implemented by GIZ that receives joint support from USAID and the Ministry for Environment of the Czech Republic on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

• 02/26/2019
• Regina Bernhard, Johannes Schroeten, Matthew Ogonowski

The ability of the world’s poorest farmers and pastoralists to adapt to a changing climate will affect the food security of millions across the world.

• 02/14/2019
• Nathanial Matthews

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

Conservation organizations have long promoted beekeeping as an activity to sustainably generate incomes and provide incentives to protect ecosystems.

• 01/29/2019
• Mark Donahue, David Miller

Energy opportunities, and other value chain upgrades, could potentially impact women, both for good and for bad.

• 12/10/2018
• Lydia Mbevi

In September 2018, the Sustainable CIS project organized a regional outreach workshop in Dakar, Senegal that brought together NMHSs, the private sector, academia, international organizations, and the donor community.

• 11/16/2018
• Olga Krylova

The Global Resilience Partnership-funded 1-6-1 platform has built resilience in Uganda.

• 10/23/2018
• Frank Annor, Dr. Nick van de Giesen, Dr. John S. Selker, Patrick Kibaya

In the West Gonja and Sene districts of northern and central Ghana, respectively, deforestation caused by charcoal production is affecting sustainable livelihoods.

• 10/18/2018
• SERVIR

A program in Uganda's Karamoja region is helping communities resolve conflict over grazing lands even as more intense drought increases pressure on these lands.

• 08/10/2018
• Christine Chumbler

In the Dagana district of Senegal, Moustapha Aminata walks out to his rice paddies and looks to the sky for signs of rain. In 2009, floods wiped out his crop, but now dry years seem to come around more frequently than ever and Moustapha worries about how he and his family will withstand another year of low yields.

• 04/02/2018
• Dr. Tufa Dinku

While public sector interest in climate information services (CIS) is concerned with resilience in the face of climate variability and change, the private sector is beginning to recognize that there is a growing market for climate services. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are helping to bridge gaps in public services around the globe. 

• 02/20/2018
• Fatema Rajabali, Robert O’Sullivan, Jeremy Usher

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