January’s 32 Top Resources: Climate Change & Finance | Adaptation | REDD+ | Gender | Agriculture | Livelihood

January’s 32 Top Resources: Climate Change & Finance | Adaptation | REDD+ | Gender | Agriculture | Livelihood

Special January Newsletter on the Best New Resources for Adaptation, Development, Sustainability and Nonprofit Programs

We have so many excellent resources come through CSDi that we periodically compile them and share them in an occasional, special newsletter.

Please note: web addresses change frequently – if one doesn’t work simply type the resource title into your browser.

Winter Quarter Final Call
February 3 – Project Design, Funding and Management for:
Nonprofits | International Development | Climate Change | Nutrition | Agriculture | Water Management
 
1. CLIMATE CHANGE
100 Projects: 3 Year Summary Of Partner Field Projects
Center for Sustainable Development
 
Become a CSDi Field Partner: New Field Partner Program
Center for Sustainable Development
 
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Training Kit
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
2014
 
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) Sustainable Development Evaluation Tool
UNDP
September 2014
 
Update of the FAOSTAT Emissions database for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use
FAOSTAT
2014
 
Senegal Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Options Analysis
David Miller, Michael Wasson; Sylvia Trazska; Sara-Katherine Coxon, Ayesha Dinshaw, and Heather McGray; Sandra Baptista; Alfonso del Rio; Leif Brottem; Tim Finan; Mamadou Baro; and Henri Mathieu Lo.
USAID
October 2014
 
Implementing the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Framework – A Closer Look at Renewables and Opportunities for an Energy Union
Anne Held, Mario Ragwitz; Gustav Resch, Lukas Liebmann; Fabio Genoese
Towards2030
January 2015
 
What does the Lima Call for Climate Action mean for Africa?
Richard Munang and Robert Mgendi
FIELD
January 2015
 
2. CLIMATE FINANCE
Shifting Paradigms – Unpacking Transformation for Climate Action: A Guidebook for Climate Finance and Development Practitioners
Timon Wehnert
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
2014
 
Going in the right direction? Tracking adaptation finance at the subnational level
Emily Wilkinson, Alice Caravani, Nella Canales Trujillo, Smita Nakhooda et al
ODI
December 2014
 
3. ADAPTATION
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Planning
Mozaharul Alam
SEARCA
November 2014
 
Approaches to Assessment of Impacts and Vulnerability to Climate Change and Adaptation Options
Roberto Pedro Sandoval and Hideki Kanamaru Alam
SEARCA
November 2014
 
Community Based Adaptation: an empowering approach for climate resilient development and risk reduction
Timon Wehnert
CARE
November 2014
 
Investment in Climate Change Adaptation can Help Promote the Livelihoods of 65% of Africans, finds new report
UNEP
2014
 
Local approaches to harmonising climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies: Lessons from India
CDKN
June 2014
 
4. FORESTS & REDD+
Open Access Course on Mangrove Ecosystems
UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
May 2014
 
5. CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
Agri-Journalist Seeking Stories for Spore Magazine
Contact James Karuga
james.karuga@gmail.com
My name is James Karuga a climate change and agriculture journalist for Spore Magazine spore.cta.int published by CTA Netherlands.
I get Your newsletter regularly and read you got projects even in Pacific islands. At Spore Magazine we lack sufficient stories from such regions.
Hence my request to You. Would you from time to time be connecting me to Program Officers in those regions I be covering projects in those regions./div>

James Karuga
 
Coping With Heat in the Garden: Drought-Tolerant Crops, Resilient Perennials and More
Gary Paul Nabhan
Mother Earth News
July 2014
 
Seven Climate-Smart Agriculture Country Profiles
CIAT
October 2014
 
Home Gardening for Improved Livelihoods in Nepal
Mahesh Shrestha
LI-BIRD
June 2014
 
6. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
An African’s Message for America
Cassandra Herrman
New York Times
January 2015/div>

 
7. WATER
Beyond Downscaling: A Bottom-Up Approach to Climate Adaptation for Water Resources Management.
García, L.E., J.H. Matthews, D.J. Rodriguez, M. Wijnen, K.N. DiFrancesco, P. Ray.
The Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)
2014
 
8. PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
A practical guide for actor focused Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Jan Van Ongevalle, Huib Huyse
HIVA
2014
 
9. GENDER
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings
Edward R. Carr and Mary C. Thompson
USAID
October 2014
 
How can we improve women’s health and save more than 14m children from dying before 2030?
Dara Lee Luca et al.
Copenhagen Consensus Center
December 2014
 
Gender and Food Security Pack
Georgina Aboud
BRIDGE
January 2015
 
10. DRR
Recommendations pre-zero-draft post-2015 framework on DRR
Wetlands International
September 2014
 
 
11. MONITORING & EVALUATION
A Multicountry Assessment of Tropical Resource Monitoring by Local Communities.
Finn Danielsen, et. al.
BioScience 64: 236251 (2014)
November 2014
 
Counting What Counts: Using Local Knowledge to Improve Arctic Resource Management.
Finn Danielsen, et. al.
Geography 37: 6991 (2014)
November 2014
 
12. HEALTH
Meant to Keep Malaria Out, Mosquito Nets Are Used to Haul Fish In
JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
New York Times
January 2015
 
13. Non Profit Social Programs
Social Programs That Work.
RON HASKINS
New York Times
December 2014
 
14. WINTER QUARTER

 
CSDi Winter Quarter Final Call: Training programs begin February 3.
 
Become the Solution. 18 distance training programs starting over the next 2 weeks. Learn more about becoming part of the solution to the challenges faced by nonprofits and NGOs.
 
 
“Tim Magee, and his colleagues at CSDi, are to be commended for producing a change in the way development is practiced, and so directly contribute to the improvement of millions of lives around the world.”

Howard White
Executive Director, 3ie

 
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We look forward to working with you in our training programs.
 
Sincerely,
 
Tim Magee, Executive Director
 
Tim Magee is the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation published by Routledge, Oxford, England.
 
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