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The author highlights risks of unorganised riots driven by economic desperation and a potential regime-opposition standoff over how the country should be governed after the state of emergency ends and the ruling party's term expires. 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It assesses the African Union's (AU) 'Silencing the Guns' initiative, arguing that while infrastructure like the Continental Early Warning System (CEWS) and the Panel of the Wise exists, implementation is hindered by a lack of conceptual coherence and poor governance. The brief highlights that governance deficiencies, corruption, and the illicit trade of firearms—with over 40 million civilian-held firearms in Africa—drive conflict and displacement. 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The study concludes that preventing meteorological droughts from escalating into socio-economic disasters could potentially reduce communal conflict risks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"All three drought indicators (SPEI, NDVI, and EM-DAT) are positively associated with a higher likelihood of communal conflict across Sub-Saharan Africa, supporting the hypothesis that droughts generally increase conflict risk.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Socio-economic drought, as measured by EM-DAT, has the most significant effect, approximately doubling the odds of experiencing violent conflict.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Agricultural drought (NDVI) is significant in all main models, with odds ratios for conflict ranging between 1.39 and 1.92.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Meteorological drought (SPEI) shows a weak and inconsistent relationship with conflict, becoming significant primarily when considering droughts in neighbouring areas.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The relationship between NDVI drought and communal conflict is likely based on spatial correlation (occurring in the same types of land) rather than temporal correlation (occurring in the same years).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a sequential relationship between the three drought types: lack of precipitation (SPEI) increases the likelihood of reduced vegetation quality (NDVI), which in turn increases the likelihood of a socio-economic disaster (EM-DAT).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The level of democracy is a strong negative predictor of communal conflict, with higher democracy scores significantly decreasing the odds of conflict.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Previous conflict in a cell is the strongest predictor of current conflict, increasing the odds of a conflict in year t by four to six times if a conflict occurred in year t-1.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Ethnic exclusion, as measured by the GeoEPR 2014 dataset, was not found to have a significant effect on the likelihood of communal conflict in this study.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001531#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["drought","climate variability"],"geography_discussed":["Sudano-Sahelian Region","Somalia","Nigeria","Kenya","Uganda","Ethiopia","South Sudan"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["multilevel logistic regression","sensitivity analysis","spatial analysis"]},{"id":"prio-001533","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/prio-001533","title":"Rainfall Variability and Violent, State-Based Conflict","publisher":{"name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo","organization":"peace-research-institute-oslo"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":"2020","source_url":"https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/52a825cc-c6c8-4c4e-9d38-a3e84afd59af/MA_thesis_Mjelva_2020.pdf?inline=true","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The research examines how the effect of anomalous rainfall (excess and scarce) on violent, state-based conflict varies based on societal vulnerability factors. Using a causal forest model on global grid-cell data, the author finds that while rainfall variability generally has a small effect on conflict, this effect is context-specific. Scarce rainfall is more likely to increase conflict risk in communities with high agricultural employment and poor governance (low SHDI and GDP). Excess rainfall's effect is more complex, showing higher risk in areas with high population density, low globalization, low democracy, and low GDP, but contrary to expectations, it showed smaller effects in areas with high political exclusion or greater distance to the capital.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001533#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The effect of rainfall variability on violent, state-based conflict is generally small across all studied contexts, but it is confirmed to be context-specific and dependent on the vulnerability of the community.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001533#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Scarce rainfall is most likely to increase the probability of violent, state-based conflict in communities characterized by high agricultural employment and low levels of good governance, specifically low Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI) and GDP.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001533#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The factors that modify the relationship between scarce rainfall and conflict differ from those that modify the relationship between excess rainfall and conflict, suggesting they operate through separate mechanisms.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001533#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Contrary to theoretical expectations, high levels of political exclusion and greater distance to the capital were associated with smaller effects of excess rainfall on conflict.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001533#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The analysis identified that some vulnerability factors, such as temperature and the prevalence of non-state conflict, did not have a significant impact on the treatment effect in either the scarce or excess rainfall models.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001533#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The study encountered a significant violation of the overlap assumption, where propensity scores for receiving the treatment (SPEI3) were heavily skewed toward zero, necessitating the exclusion of a large portion of the data to avoid biased estimates.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001533#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["rain","drought","flood","climate change adaptation"],"geography_discussed":["Ethiopia","Syria","sub-Saharan Africa","South Asia","Southeast Asia","Latin America","Afghanistan"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["causal forest","machine learning","heterogeneous treatment effects","causal inference","non-parametric analysis"]},{"id":"ruralele-000180","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/ruralele-000180","title":"Fast tracking rural electrifi cation through accelerated and precise mini-grid policy formulation","publisher":{"name":"Alliance for Renewable Electrification","organization":"alliance-for-renewable-electrification"},"document_type":"guide","language":"en","date_published":"2020","source_url":"https://www.renewelec.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CEMG-Development-Guide-EN.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The guide argues that sustainable mini-grid deployment requires a balance between government control, public funding, and retail tariffs. 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In 2018, only 16 billion USD was recorded for electrification in high-impact countries (HIC), far below the 41 billion USD annual requirement. Clean cooking funding, while tripling to 131 million USD in 2018, remains drastically lower than the 4.53 billion USD needed annually. The report notes a concerning trend where fossil fuel investments have grown, while renewable energy and off-grid solutions remain underfunded. It calls for coordinated action between development finance institutions and governments, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, to reduce risks for private investors and shift away from carbon-intensive energy sources.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"There is a substantial deficit in annual funding required to meet 2030 energy access goals: electrification in high-impact countries (HIC) received 16 billion USD in 2018 against a need of 41 billion USD, while clean cooking received 131 million USD against a need of 4.53 billion USD.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Energy financing is poorly distributed geographically; in 2018, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) represented 70% of the HIC population without electricity but received less than 20% of the total electrification funding for HIC, totaling 3.3 billion USD.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Investment trends are shifting toward fossil fuels, with these sources constituting the largest share of electrification commitments in HIC for the first time in at least six years, largely due to grid-connected projects in Bangladesh.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Clean cooking investments are highly concentrated; Bangladesh accounted for 47% of total tracked investments in 2018, primarily through two large projects funded by the World Bank Group and the Green Climate Fund.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Private sector investment in clean cooking is minimal and focused on modern fuels like ethanol, biogas, and LPG, whereas public funding primarily targets improved cookstoves (ICS).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Gender-focused energy access funding is limited, representing only 2% to 11% of total official development assistance (ODA) for the energy sector, with 93% of this funding coming from just ten organizations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Rwanda's strategic policy reforms between 2013 and 2016, including expanding the national electrification plan to off-grid solutions and implementing cost-reflective tariffs, led to public and private investments three to five times higher than other low-income SSA countries.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000272#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["electrification","clean cooking","climate finance","renewable energy","fossil fuel","Mini-grids","carbon dioxide emissions","green recovery","gender equality","Paris Agreement"],"geography_discussed":["India","Bangladesh","Burkina Faso","Chad","Democratic Republic of the Congo","Madagascar","Malawi","Niger","Ethiopia","People's Republic of China","Rwanda","Indonesia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["financial analysis","policy assessment","geographic comparison"]},{"id":"seforall-000273","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/seforall-000273","title":"ENERGIZING FINANCE: UNDERSTANDING THE LANDSCAPE","publisher":{"name":"Sustainable Energy for All","organization":"sustainable-energy-for-all"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2020","source_url":"https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2020-11/EF-2020-UL-ES-SEforALL.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The 2020 report by Sustainable Energy for All reveals a widening gap between the investment needed and the finance actually committed to achieve universal energy access by 2030. 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Bangladesh established a Climate Change Trust Fund in 2010 with $400 million in domestic resources (2010–17) and published its first Citizen’s Climate Budget Report in 2018. The Philippines integrated climate actions into annual budgeting and created monitoring procedures driven by community actors advocating for accountability.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001703#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Effective climate-related accountability requires a combination of transparency, participation, and strong formal oversight institutions, as evidenced by research in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001703#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"CSOs can ensure transparent and accountable climate finance systems by following a four-step capacity-building process: conducting political economy assessments of government planning and citizen freedom; analyzing how finance plans are determined and reported; implementing engagement and advocacy strategies; and building the capacity of other CSOs through peer learning and training.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001703#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["adaptation finace"],"geography_discussed":["Ethiopia","Uganda","Bangladesh","Philippines","India","Nepal"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","case study"]},{"id":"wwf-000304","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/wwf-000304","title":"Living Planet Report 2020","publisher":{"name":"WWF International","organization":"wwf-international"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2020","source_url":"https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/167/279c656a32_ENGLISH_FULL.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The Living Planet Report 2020 documents a severe global decline in wildlife populations and ecosystems, highlighting the interconnectedness of nature and human health. 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