8 September 2014
Learning Event Highlights Adaptation and Resilience Links in African Drylands
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An event, organized by the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security programme (CCAFS) of CGIAR and partners, brought together stakeholders from a diverse range of disciplines working with dryland communities across East and South Africa.

Event participants shared experiences on climate change adaptation, particularly related to community-based adaptation (CBA).

They discussed the links between CBA and achieving resilient development across disciplines, as well as integrating CBA, disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection, humanitarian action and development.

CGIAR4 September 2014: An event organized by the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security programme (CCAFS) of CGIAR and partners, brought together stakeholders from a diverse range of disciplines working with dryland communities across East and South Africa. Event participants shared experiences on climate change adaptation, particularly related to community-based adaptation (CBA). Participants discussed the links between CBA and achieving resilient development across disciplines, as well as integrating CBA, disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection, humanitarian action and development.

More specifically, participants discussed: climate information and communications services, early warning systems and risk reduction; sector based themes, such as water, agriculture, livestock, food and nutrition security, social protection and DRR; and adaptation and resilience at scale, in the areas of, inter alia, pastoralist and agro-pastoralists adaptive capacity, land use and planning systems, transitioning livelihoods in the face of climate change, and landscape level or ecosystem-based decision making.

The conference aimed to: provide a better understanding of the links between adaptation and resilience in drylands through exploring good practices, success factors, challenges and lessons to inform future actions and policy; strengthen networks, coordination and engagement with resilience in participants’ relevant areas of work; and produce a communique to share emerging recommendations for improved practice, policy and to inform decisions on adaptation finance and resilience programming in the region’s drylands.

Insights and recommendations generated at the conference will be forwarded to the African Ministerial Conference of the Environment (AMCEN) (Botswana), the 4th Climate Change and Development Conference (Morocco), and the UN Climate Summit (New York, US).

The event, which brought together some 80 participants, was hosted by CARE Ethiopia, together with CARE’s Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP), the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) CCAFS and the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology. [Learning Event Media Advisory] [Learning Event Concept Note]

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