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Key achievements include the launch of a climate and health responder course for Latin America, the publication of a compendium on climate impacts in the LAC region, and the development of a drought information system for Southern South America. The Directorate also expanded its collaborative research actions with the Belmont Forum and established partnerships with organizations like the WMO and PAHO to improve climate risk assessments and early warning systems.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The IAI Directorate established a Gender and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) committee that developed an implementation plan, making EDI plans a requirement for all grants and providing training for grantees and STeP fellows.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To strengthen the science-policy interface, the IAI launched the Science Diplomacy Center (SDC) for the Americas in late 2022 to serve as a regional reference center for capacity building and governance mechanisms related to global environmental change.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Science and Technology Policy (STeP) Fellowships Program expanded from 17 fellows in four countries to 64 fellows across 13 countries, providing training in science diplomacy and leadership to early and mid-career scientists.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The IAI implemented a 'Climate and Health Responder Course for Latin America' in partnership with PAHO and the Global Consortium on Climate & Health Education, involving 25 transdisciplinary teams from 14 countries.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Directorate published the first IAI compendium on the Impacts of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, which consists of 12 Op-Eds written by STeP fellows and investigators.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The IAI is administering the Drought Information System for Southern South America (SISSA), which provides drought monitoring and risk management tools for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The IAI strengthened its engagement with the Belmont Forum through Collaborative Research Actions (CRAs), including projects on 'Pathways to sustainability 1' and 'Migration and Mobility', and is co-leading a new CRA on 'Amazonia and Tropical Forests'.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iai-001026#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change","energy transition","Climate risk assessment","early warning system","capacity building","cloud computing"],"geography_discussed":["Panama","Jamaica","Uruguay","Dominica","Brazil","Argentina","Chile","Colombia","Mexico","Ecuador","Canada","Barbados","Saint Lucia","Grenada","Dominican Republic","United States","Bolivia","Paraguay","Guatemala"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["activity report","progress review"]},{"id":"napglob-000253","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/napglob-000253","title":"Addressing Loss and Damage: What can we learn from countries’ National Adaptation Plans?","publisher":{"name":"NAP Global Network","organization":"nap-global-network"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2023-05","source_url":"https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/napgn-en-2023-addressing-loss-damage.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report analyzes 41 multisectoral National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) to explore their role in managing loss and damage. 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The organization focuses on public policy development, electrification roadmaps, and technology evaluations for fleets and infrastructure. CMS manages several high-profile international projects, including the GEF 7 Electric Mobility Programme's LATAM platform, the ZEBRA initiative in Chile, and the Drive Electric campaign. 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It recommends that NAP teams leverage the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) framework, which includes education, training, public awareness, public participation, public access to information, and international cooperation. The briefing emphasizes values-led engagement, the use of trusted messengers, and audience segmentation to drive sustainable behavior change. It also provides evidence-based principles for visual communication to avoid stereotypes and connect with audiences emotionally. Case studies from Saint Lucia, Fiji, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Ghana illustrate various approaches, including the use of radio for rural outreach and visual storytelling by women to influence national policy.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000278#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Effective public engagement is necessary to build a 'social mandate,' which is a state where society supports government action for collective well-being and accepts the processes and outcomes as legitimate. Without this, governments struggle to act decisively, and there is a risk that people will ignore or oppose strong climate policies.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000278#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Traditional top-down, one-way government communication is ineffective for climate change. Instead, social science indicates that people respond to tailored narratives that reflect their identity, embody their values, and are delivered by trusted peer messengers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000278#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"NAP teams can use the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) agenda under the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement to frame their engagement. ACE consists of six interlinked elements: education, training, public awareness, public participation, public access to information, and international cooperation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"napglob-000278#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To achieve sustained behavior change, engagement must be 'values-led,' meaning actions are linked to a person's convictions rather than perceived as coercion. 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