Layering and tailoring financial services for resilience: Insights, opportunities and challenges from BRACED projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal and Senegal
This report explores how BRACED projects support the development and delivery of tailored-to-context financial services.
How can we collect high-quality data on climate resilience?
How we collect evaluation data matters as much as what we collect.
Saving for success
By running businesses and diversifying their income, group members are reducing their vulnerability to climate shocks
To save rare forest, farmers try a new crop: butterflies
Switch to fast-growing "crop" is helping curb deforestation for charcoal in Zanzibar, backers say
Dakar floods shows how social ties can help, hinder disaster management
Severe flooding in my village makes me wonder: does the strong sense of solidarity in Senegal relieve the government of its disaster management duties?
Efficient cookstoves save trees - and chickens - in Kenya
A wood-saving stove that doubles as a chicken brooder is raising incomes and cutting deforestation in Laikipia County
Chad residents in planting drive with tree nurseries
Fruit tree nurseries bring grafting – a planting technique – to drought-stricken areas
Measuring progress toward climate resilience – what's in the toolbox?
How effective are tools designed to assess resilience in the face of climate change?
Emerging drought: are cities planning for the crisis?
Sustainable cities require robust water supply systems, yet many cities resort to ad hoc measures to battle drought.
Faced with rising seas, French Polynesia ponders floating islands
Could small islands threatened by sea level rise find a new future afloat?