Blog

By generating income for rural communities, Zimbabwe’s NTFPs offer a market-led approach to boosting climate resilience.

• 01/16/2025
• Itayi Usaiwevhu

USAID’s CASA supports the AAI to unlock critical adaptation funds from the GCF. In 2024, CASA continued this work by helping accredited entities apply for funding from GCF

• 12/18/2024
• Hannah Blair

USAID is updating its country-level climate risk profiles to improve climate risk management and support adaptation and resilience efforts.

• 12/10/2024
• Hannah Blair, Anna L. Brown

As leaders gather in Azerbaijan for COP29, climate finance remains a priority conversation for governments, donors, and other stakeholders. Access to finance is a critical adaptation bottleneck across USAID partner countries in Africa.

• 11/21/2024
• Hannah Blair

Forecasting tools and simple, low-cost interventions can help farmers adapt to some of the worst impacts of climate change-driven extreme weather events in Central America.

• 11/07/2024
• Nik Steinberg, Zachary Johnson

The Millennium Challenge Corporation and USAID launched a new report, Resilience at Scale, to outline this paradigm shift to accelerate and scale up resilient infrastructure in developing countries.

• 11/06/2024
• Hope Herron, Amy Kirschenbaum Swers

The 2024 Climatelinks Photo Contest captured how communities across the globe are confronting climate change. We received over 300 submissions from the Climatelinks community, representing more than 45 countries.

• 10/29/2024
• Climatelinks

Here is a recap of the August ‘Climate Resilience’ theme, including top resources and blogs from the month.

• 09/19/2024
• Climatelinks

Traditional approaches to health programming are no longer sufficient in this rapidly changing climate.

• 09/17/2024
• Fernanda Zermoglio, Maggie Barnes, Liz Lugten

Did you miss the Climatelinks July newsletter? Here's a short list of top resources and blogs from the month.

• 08/29/2024
• Climatelinks

Complex risk necessitates a shift in how development actors approach international development and climate resilience programs and policies.

• 08/26/2024
• Dr. Jennifer Denno Cissé, Dr. Molly Hellmuth, Dr. Zarrar Khan

Many researchers worry that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point, also becoming a carbon source and dramatically changing ecologically, if we do not do more to curb the current rate of deforestation.

• 08/22/2024
• Shannon Vasamsetti

The RISE grants challenge is a first-of-its-kind grant fund that supports activities designed to address GBV in environment and climate change programs and generate evidence on promising interventions.

• 08/22/2024
• Jason Ocampo

USAID received a Certificate of Excellence in Accountability Reporting Award for integration of climate-related risk information into performance reporting in its FY 2023 Agency Financial Report.

• 08/20/2024
• Greg Shanahan

The USAID Upper Lempa Watershed Project focuses on the headwaters of the Lempa River, one of the longest in Central America – and the largest river in El Salvador.

• 08/15/2024
• Winrock International