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USAID launched the Climate Gender Equity Fund at COP27 to harness the power of public-private partnerships to close the gender-climate finance gap.

• 04/18/2024
• Corinne Hart

The 2023 Climatelinks Photo Contest was a great success. We received over 250 submissions from the Climatelinks community, representing more than 40 countries. Congratulations to the winners!

• 11/13/2023
• Climatelinks

The Kasabela mobile application is a field survey tool that provides accurate, real-time data to inform evidence-based decision making.

• 11/02/2023
• Dr. Asclepias Rachmi Soerjono, Istu Septania

Human activity is the cause of many environmental problems, but understanding human behavior and decision-making presents a solution.

• 10/31/2023
• Kristi Marciano

A USAID project in Uganda is helping smallholder farmers boost their resilience to an increasingly unpredictable climate by using a market systems approach that addresses obstacles to adopting CSA practices.

• 10/05/2023
• Dorothy Najjingo

The effects of climate change are threatening agricultural systems and access to nutritious food around the world. This blog explores the Conceptual Pathways between Agriculture and Nutrition independent research project.

• 08/01/2023
• Ashley Boddie

USAID helps Ugandans combat forest degradation and improve livelihoods with sustainable agroforestry techniques.

• 07/13/2023
• Annah Natukunda

USAID has developed dozens of resources to aid climate and development practitioners in their work at the intersections of climate, gender, and social inclusion. Climatelinks is proud to host a variety of these resources, from technical reports and analyses to fact sheets. This blog compiles some recently added gender and social inclusion resources.

• 04/11/2023
• Ariel Schindler

Millions of people lack access to clean and safe water, especially in developing regions like the West Africa Sahel. The situation is even more dire for women and girls, who often bear the burden of fetching water, sometimes walking miles a day to bring fresh water back to their families. 

• 04/04/2023
• Ariel Schindler

With support from the USAID Climate Ready project, award-winning FDB was the first development bank in the South Pacific to be accredited to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the world’s largest climate fund. In 2017, it became a Direct Access Entity, meaning it can submit funding proposals to the GCF and oversee the funded projects. Such accreditation is a pathway for countries to gain access to funds that can enable them to act on their own climate change priorities.

• 03/28/2023
• USAID Climate Ready

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience (MRR Innovation Lab) researchers are returning to the sites of their prior program evaluations where people who took part in the studies have since then been struck by disaster.

• 01/18/2023
• MRR Innovation Lab

USAID has made climate-resilience a key focus of its 2022-2030 Climate Strategy. Reducing exposure and vulnerability to climate disasters, cutting back greenhouse gas emissions, and conserving biodiversity are all important aspects of building resiliency, and aid in the protection of sectors such as agriculture, health, energy, and water.

• 01/12/2023
• Ariel Schindler

This documentary from USAID's Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests in Malawi explains the factors that exacerbate illegal charcoal production, transportation, and sale in urban areas of charcoal demand.

• 12/08/2022
• USAID Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests

Kandodo markets biogas solutions from his start-up EcoGen, and now he sees farmers in a different light: a source of large amounts of organic waste and a target for fertilizer.

• 12/06/2022
• USAID Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests

In Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, thousands of people hit the nightclubs to party, dance, and eat braai, but Helbert Thondoya is not there to dance.

• 11/29/2022
• Nicholas J. Parkinson