Dr Evans Kituyi - Responding to Climate Stress
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This document provides an overview of the CARIAA Programme's theory of change. CARIAA is a 7-year, $70 million partnership between IDRC and DFID to fund research on climate change adaptation in Africa and Asia. It focuses on 4 "hot spot" regions through 4 research consortia examining issues like water and resilience in the Himalayas, adaptation in semi-arid regions, climate change and migration in deltas, and pathways to resilience in semi-arid economies. The goal is to generate new knowledge on adapting to climate stress and promote research uptake to strengthen adaptation expertise and resilience for vulnerable populations.
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Dr Evans Kituyi - Responding to Climate Stress
- 1. Responding to Climate Stress: CARIAA Programme’s Theory of Change Evans Kituyi & Michele Leone IDRC Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa
- 2. Overview Introducing CARIAA: Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia The CARIAA Model features Consortia The Hot-Spots Cross-Consortia initiatives Our Theory of Change Conclusion
- 3. What is CARIAA? • 7-year Partnership with DFID • $70 million, ending 2019 • Builds upon Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) which closed in 2012
- 4. Linking Research to Policy & Practice in the hot-spots Generate new knowledge Promote research uptake Strengthen adaptation expertise Our overarching aim: To develop robust evidence on how to increase the resilience of vulnerable populations in climate change hot spots in Africa and Asia.
- 5. A Hot-spot Approach Himalayan Adaptation, Water & Resilience Pathways to Resilience in Semi- arid Economies Deltas, Vulnerability & Climate Change: Migration as Adaptation Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions
- 6. A Consortium Approach Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) Core consortia members Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) Himalayan Adaptation, Water, and Resilience Research (HI-AWARE) Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) • Research • Policy • Practice
- 7. Collaborative Program Architecture Cross-cutting Themes • Migration • Gender & equity • Economics • Climate science • Scenarios Country Tables • Kenya • Ghana • India • Bangladesh • Burkina Faso • Pakistan Program Strategies •Knowledge management •Communications •Monitoring and evaluation Stakeholder engagement
- 8. The CARIAA Theory of Change
- 9. Thanks!
Editor's Notes
- The program represents a joint investment by DFID and IDRC of 70 million in Canadian dollars over 7 years, ending in 2019. Features of the CARIAA program at its early stages were presented at COP 18 in Doha in three sessions, (featured in the photo, above). It builds on a previous collaboration – the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program, a $60 million project that lasted from 2006-2012. This time we include both Africa and Asia. The graphic above features its final interactive report, which can be found on our website. A competitive call for proposals was launched in February 2013. We received 180 concept notes, for a total ask of 1.5 billion dollars. Of those received, 11 concept notes were selected to develop full proposals. CARIAA’s executive committee then selected four projects to participate in the program.
- CARIAA will fund 3 interdisciplinary research consortia with up to 5 members each. Each consortium will be expected to include the different expertise required tackle the issues specific to their hot spot, probably bringing together institutions that have worked together before. Since the investment is over several years, it will provide adequate time to conduct research within the hotspots and also analysis across the hotpots. It will also provide enough time for significant engagement with local communities in the research and develop solutions that work for them. The relationships developed through this process of collective learning and knowledge co-creation around a shared agenda and the leadership from a strong institution in Africa or Asia should translate into increased avenues for impacts and also sustainable capacity to work on these issues.
- Himalayan Adaptation, Water & Resilience will enhance the adaptive capacities and climate resilience of the poor and vulnerable women, men and children in the mountains and plains of the Glacier and snowpack-dependent river Basins of the Himalayan region. Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies’ overall objective is to support climate resilient economic development in semi-arid lands by addressing the conditions that frame and incentivise economic growth that considers the needs of women and marginalised groups. Adaptation at Scale in Semi-arid regions will strengthen knowledge bases in semi-arid regions on climate change vulnerability and adaptation, to facilitate a shift from current adaptation practices and policies into a mode that achieves proactive, widespread adaptation embedded in development activities at multiple governance scales, yielding well-adapted enhanced livelihoods for vulnerable groups. Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change will assess migration as a climate change adaptation option in deltaic environments with a changing climate and deliver policy support to create the conditions for sustainable gender-sensitive adaptation.
- Meanwhile, the consortium model brings together institutions with a focus on research, policy, and practice, and a range of regional and disciplinary expertise spanning the biophysical and social aspects of climate change adaptation. Each consortium consists of four or five core member institutions directly funded by the CARIAA program, and these institutions collaborate with approximately 40 additional institutions through sub-contracting arrangements (click link on slide to see map of all institutions including sub-contracted). Learning to work under this consortium model is an important piece of early work under the CARIAA program. To support and inform these efforts, CARIAA published a working paper on “Lessons Learned on Consortium Based Research and Development” in 2014. More information on each of the CARIAA consortia follows later in this presentation.
- This diagram represents our program’s architecture. The circles represent the four selected consortia, each made up of five member institutions. This model allows consortia to conduct interdisciplinary work with member institutions from academia, applied research institutions, and governmental and non-governmental organizations. Our cross-consortia architecture enables research that spans the four consortia/ three hot spot regions. The overarching program strategies include knowledge management, communication, and monitoring and evaluation. Stakeholder engagement involves program-wide activities, and also activities within each consortium. Five ‘Country Tables’ represent locations where two or more consortia are working to ensure coordinated stakeholder engagement and explore opportunities for joint approaches and implementation. Several cross-cutting themes emerged in the inception phase of the program. These include the topics listed on the righthand side. The use of this model facilitates knowledge sharing between key groups, including capacity for increased uptake. Target groups are expected to at least include academia, decision-makers, and vulnerable populations.