How to Engage with Climatelinks

Climatelinks offers several ways for community members to submit content to the site. Specific submission guidance by content type is detailed below. We encourage you to check this page periodically as guidance may be updated as the site evolves.

Climatelinks also offers USAID staff and implementing partners services, such as:

  • providing essential resources critical to Center for Climate Positive Development (CCPD) program design, implementation, and monitoring, evaluation, and reporting efforts,
  • archiving various kinds of resources so they are publicly available and easily accessible through search,
  • publishing blogs that share valuable insight for the climate change and development community,
  • promoting events both on the site and through email marketing,
  • developing mini-sites for USAID/Washington projects focused on climate programming, and
  • archiving photos depicting climate and development programming from around the world.

Write to the team at climatelinkssite [at] gmail [dot] com with questions. Learn more about Climatelinks and the core team here. To notify the team about an issue with the site, use the bug submission form.  

NOTE: The Climatelinks team does not take responsibility for clearing content that it does not generate. We assume material submitted by USAID staff and implementing partners is cleared for public sharing. Please ensure the documents, videos, text, and other resources you submit to the site are the final, official, cleared, and 508-compliant versions.

SUBMITTING CONTENT 

Resources
Blogs
Events
Project Mini-sites
Photos
Outreach Channels

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RESOURCES (Back)

  • Peruse the Climatelinks Resources Library to understand the scope and nature of its content. We accept documents, videos, websites, and tools.
  • To submit a resource, use the "Submit your suggestion here!" button at the top of the library or use the resource upload form.
  • All items in the Climatelinks library must be supported by USAID.
  • Helpful resources that you may like to highlight that are not supported by USAID may be featured in other ways (e.g., in a blog post). We will link out to such resources rather than host them on the site.

BLOGS (Back)

Should you submit your blog idea or draft?

What we are interested in publishing:

  1. Narrative stories about a program's benefits/impacts/results/achievements/lessons.
  2. Blogs that explain or synthesize program knowledge, tools, approaches, lessons learned, and best practices relevant for climate change and development practitioners.  

What we are not interested in publishing:

  1. Press releases. Climatelinks is not a public relations platform. 
    1. Instead, a substantive story about new approaches, lessons learned, or real progress will reflect far better on your organization.
  2. Opinion pieces. Climatelinks focuses on technical content and will not feature advocacy or other opinion-based submissions.
  3. Blogs that require intimate knowledge of arcane USAID processes. Those can be posted on internal Agency platforms if relevant exclusively to USAID staff.  

EVENTS (Back)

  • Peruse the Climatelinks Events Calendar to understand the scope and nature of its content.
  • Submit events to climatelinkssite@gmail.com with the subject line "EVENT SUBMISSION."
  • Events can be any event related to any of USAID CCPD's pillars of work.
  • Events do not need to be sponsored or supported by USAID. However, if an event is supported by USAID, please note that in your submission.
  • Please provide all relevant details and/or a link to where that information can be found (date, time (including time zone), location, RSVP requirements, etc.).

PROJECT MINI-SITES (Back)

This option is for centrally-managed projects (i.e., projects managed out of USAID/Washington) and Mission-based projects, and includes a brief project description, up to six features, and an embedded video playlist (or other featured content such as an image or infographic). A project mini-site allows for project-produced blogs, events, and resource items in the Climatelinks library to feed into the mini-site through appropriate tagging. Contact us at climatelinkssite@gmail.com so we can follow up with you to discuss and assess the kind of content your project produces and your readiness to create a project mini-site, as well as map out a timeline depending on the current workload for the Climatelinks team.

Review this document for a checklist of necessary and optional content that a project must supply for Climatelinks to create a mini-site. Each project must designate a point of contact to work with the Climatelinks team and the project must also designate the final clearance official (e.g., project AOR/COR).  

PHOTOS (Back)

  • Climatelinks maintains a Photo Gallery.
  • To submit your photos, email them to climatelinkssite@gmail.com.
  • We are particularly interested in photos that capture people and activities related to USAID CCPD programs.
  • Photos should be at least 300 dpi.
  • Each photo should have appropriate metadata (photographer's name and organization, description).
  • The photo description should explain what activity the photo captures and where the activity is taking place. 

CLIMATELINKS OUTREACH CHANNELS (Back)