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This dependency is prevalent across most countries in Africa and the Middle East, much of South and East Asia, the Caribbean, the Andean region of South America, and parts of Europe including Scandinavia.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002912#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Despite warnings of potential famines, there is no immediate justification for food export bans because global food stocks are plentiful, harvests are expected to be large, and oil prices are low.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-002912#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["food security"],"geography_discussed":["Central Asia","Uzbekistan","Kyrgyzstan","Tajikistan","Afghanistan","Mongolia","Azerbaijan","Georgia","North Africa","Middle East","Libya","Sudan","Egypt","Jordan","Tunisia","Turkey","Yemen","sub-Saharan Africa","Burundi","Djibouti","Kenya","Rwanda","Malawi","North America","South America","Kazakhstan","Central African Republic","Madagascar","Zambia","Zimbabwe","Haiti","Africa","South Asia","East Asia","Caribbean","Andean region","Europe","Scandinavia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["vulnerability assessment","policy 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":"seforall-000128","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/seforall-000128","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/2020-12/EF-2020-UL-Gender-SEforALL.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report finds that development finance for energy projects with gender equality objectives remains low, accounting for only 9% of total energy development finance in 2018, significantly lower than the 42% average across all sectors. It highlights systemic challenges in tracking this finance, including inconsistent reporting and a lack of energy-sector-specific guidance for OECD-DAC gender markers. To address these gaps, the document proposes a three-step framework for project documentation: defining the specific gender inequality context, stating a clear intent to address it throughout the project cycle, and demonstrating a direct link between the financed activities and the identified inequality. 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While financing increased by 36 percent from 2016 to USD 40 million in 2017, this represents only 1 percent of the USD 4 billion needed for universal access by 2030.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"fordecl-000175#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Artisanal and small-scale mining is increasing in areas like the Peruvian Amazon, where it caused nearly 100,000 hectares of deforestation between 1984 and 2017, with 53 percent of that loss occurring since 2011.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"fordecl-000175#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Under REDD+ programs, 16 countries have committed roughly USD 3.5 billion to support livelihood alternatives to basic-needs forest loss, though these funds have not yet been distributed as programs have not gone into effect.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"fordecl-000175#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["deforestation","forest degradation","clean cooking","land tenure","Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation","poverty reduction","sustainable development"],"geography_discussed":["Africa","Latin America","South Asia","East Africa","Congo Basin","Malawi","Democratic Republic of the Congo","Central African Republic","Indonesia","Haiti","Peru","Guatemala","Tanzania","Kenya","India","Brazil","Guyana"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["progress assessment","literature review","case study"]},{"id":"glorespar-000082","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glorespar-000082","title":"Case Study: Lessons of Challenge Funds for resilience building","publisher":{"name":"Global Resilience Partnership","organization":"global-resilience-partnership"},"document_type":"case study","language":"en","date_published":"2019-09","source_url":"https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/grp-challenge-funds.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document examines the design, selection, implementation, and scaling of Challenge Funds (CFs) specifically for resilience building. It compares GRP's operational experience with a broader literature review of various international CFs, such as the African Enterprise Challenge Fund and the Global Innovation Fund. Key findings emphasize the need for clear definitions of resilience, the value of multi-stage application processes to support local innovators, and the necessity of long-term strategies to move innovations beyond the 'valley of death' toward sustainable scale. The report concludes with specific recommendations for future resilience-focused challenges, highlighting the importance of adaptive management and robust, long-term impact evaluations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Effective resilience programming requires a shared understanding and clear definition of resilience as a precursor to design and evaluation, as the concept is complex and involves various 'principles,' 'qualities,' 'dimensions,' and 'characteristics'.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Multi-stage application processes, such as the one used in GRP's Round 1, can improve the quality of final products by providing funding for problem diagnosis and solution development, though they increase transaction costs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Small, local, and non-traditional innovators face significant barriers to applying for Challenge Funds, including a lack of capacity and the use of development jargon in guidelines; overcoming this requires significant non-financial assistance and mentoring.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Resilience-building projects are difficult to evaluate for impact because increased capacities (intermediate outcomes) may take years to translate into actual resilience, and a significant shock may not occur during the project's lifetime.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Challenge Funds often fail to support scaling because they lack long-term planning and engagement beyond the initial grant period, risking the loss of value created during the project.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The route to scaling is highly dependent on sub-national and national contexts; for example, some businesses in Ghana chose to scale only within their specific part of the country due to differing social and economic contexts between the north and south.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Literature suggests that a narrower regional or sectoral focus generally improves outcomes by preventing the dilution of the call to action, although a clear theory of change can make broad poverty-reduction focuses successful.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a risk of cognitive bias where funders are seduced by the 'newness' of technology-related approaches, potentially overlooking the more critical factor of cost-effectiveness for pro-poor solutions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000082#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change adaptation","disaster risk reduction","renewable energy","Climate-smart agriculture","climate finance","water management"],"geography_discussed":["Ghana","Ethiopia","Kenya","sub-Saharan Africa"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["case study","literature review","program evaluation"]},{"id":"glorespar-000090","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glorespar-000090","title":"SYNTHESIS OF WATER WINDOW CHALLENGE RESULTS","publisher":{"name":"Global Resilience Partnership","organization":"global-resilience-partnership"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2019-09","source_url":"https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/grp-ww-synthesis.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) Water Window Challenge supported over 500,000 people across eight countries through 12 projects focused on flood resilience. The synthesis identifies that success was driven by 'layering' interventions—combining livelihood support, early warning systems (EWS), and infrastructure—and by deep stakeholder engagement. Key achievements include the establishment of 347 women-led community-based organizations in Sri Lanka, the support of 265,000 individuals in Indonesia through transboundary coordination, and the deployment of EWS reaching over 84,000 households in the India-Nepal border region. The report emphasizes that flexible, adaptive management and strong partnerships are essential for innovating and scaling resilience efforts in volatile climatic contexts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The 10 GRP Water Window Challenges with validated data supported more than 500,000 people in eight countries, with women making up approximately 51% of those reached.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Project interventions enabled at least 189,362 people to utilize climate information or early warning systems (EWS) and provided training to at least 16,920 people in disaster risk reduction (DRR), alternative livelihoods, and resilient agricultural techniques.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Cost-benefit analyses (CBA) across the interventions generally indicate that benefits exceed costs from the perspective of local policy-makers, although most estimates excluded program costs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Scaling grantees achieved significant specific outcomes: Mercy Corps supported 265,000 individuals through transboundary coordination; the Danish Refugee Council harnessed 24 million liters of water for harvesting; Seacology established 347 community-based organizations (CBOs); Lutheran World Relief provided EWS access to over 84,000 households; and Practical Action increased agricultural productivity through flood-resilient techniques.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Effective resilience building requires a 'layering' approach, where projects sequence multiple interventions such as livelihood strengthening, access to information, and physical infrastructure to decrease climatic impacts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Partnerships and stakeholder engagement are identified as the primary enablers of success, with a particular emphasis on co-creating interventions and using reciprocal engagement to build trust.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Grantees faced significant administrative challenges, including bureaucracy and reporting systems, and noted that the unpredictable climatic contexts necessitated flexible and adaptive project planning.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Innovation occurred across several domains: technological (e.g., floating and amphibious houses), organizational (e.g., legalized transboundary forums), agricultural (e.g., sack gardening and vermicomposting), and infrastructural (e.g., improved polder drainage and earth dams).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000090#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["early warning system","disaster risk reduction","ecosystem-based adaptation","Climate-smart agriculture","climate finance","nature-based solutions"],"geography_discussed":["World","Vietnam","Indonesia","Philippines","Bangladesh","India","Nepal","Sri Lanka","Kenya","Kakuma","Tacloban"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["synthesis","cost-benefit analysis","outcome analysis"]},{"id":"glorespar-000091","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glorespar-000091","title":"Resilience Insights","publisher":{"name":"Global Resilience Partnership","organization":"global-resilience-partnership"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2019-09","source_url":"https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/grp_resilience_insights_report-11.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report identifies five key intervention areas for building resilience: nature-based solutions, empowering marginalized groups, information and technology, inclusive financial services, and low-cost infrastructure. It argues that effective resilience programming must be systemic by design, utilize layered and linked interventions, create agile networks, promote equity and inclusion, and prioritize iterative learning and scaling. Evidence from GRP's USAID and Z Zurich Foundation challenges, as well as 42 partner programs, demonstrates that these approaches can protect development gains and improve well-being in the face of climate and economic shocks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Resilience is defined by the GRP as the \"capacity to persist, adapt and transform in the face of change,\" where transformation is the most critical ambition, involving \"exploring new sources of livelihoods, new ways of stewarding our ecosystems and governing our planet in an equitable way.\"","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Evidence from GRP Innovation Challenges indicates that resilience is rarely the result of a single solution but rather a \"combination or package of interventions.\" Five primary intervention areas were identified as most effective: nature-based solutions, empowering marginalized groups, information and technology, inclusive finance and markets, and low-cost infrastructure.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Nature-based solutions, such as mangrove conservation in Sri Lanka and Vietnam, provide multiple benefits by \"buffering the worst effects of shocks\" and serving as carbon sinks and fisheries nurseries.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Empowering women and marginalized groups is essential for sustainable solutions. For example, Mahila Housing Trust's work in South Asia led to 35% of involved households becoming \"less vulnerable to climate-related risks\" through the establishment of women-led community action groups.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The integration of information and technology, such as early warning systems (EWS) and mobile apps, improves anticipatory capacity. In Uganda, the Tahmo project provided EWS information to approximately 1.2 million people, with 75% of respondents taking action based on the messages.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Inclusive financial services, including risk-contingent credit (RCC) and village savings and loans associations (VSLAs), enhance the ability of communities to plan for and respond to threats. The SATISFy project in the Horn of Africa used satellite-derived drought indices to create RCC products that embed insurance within credit.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Low-cost, scalable infrastructure can significantly reduce risk exposure. MetaMeta's \"Roads for Resilience\" approach in Ethiopia and Kenya benefited over 3 million people by implementing road water management systems that increased crop yields even during droughts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Effective resilience programming requires five core components: being \"systemic by design,\" layering and linking interventions, creating \"dynamic and agile networks,\" ensuring equity and inclusion, and a commitment to \"innovate, learn and scale.\"","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The report recommends a shift from \"gender sensitive\" to \"gender transformative\" programming, which aims to \"tackle gender relations in favor of the equal sharing of power by women and men\" and revise the structures that underpin inequalities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a critical need for longer planning horizons, as \"two or three years are not sufficient\" for sustainable systemic change. The report suggests hybrid funding modalities that combine challenge funds with long-term phased grants.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-10","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The \"resilience triple dividend\" framework is used to build the business case for investment by identifying three benefits: avoiding losses during disasters, stimulating economic activity by de-risking investment, and creating development co-benefits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000091#insight-11","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change adaptation","nature-based solutions","ecosystem-based adaptation","early warning system","climate finance","food security","water management","social protection"],"geography_discussed":["sub-Saharan Africa","South Asia","Sri Lanka","Vietnam","Philippines","India","Nepal","Bangladesh","Cambodia","Thailand","Mali","Senegal","Burkina Faso","Mozambique","Uganda","Indonesia","Kenya","Ethiopia","Sudan","Myanmar"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["synthesis","case study","program evaluation"]}]}