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The report assesses gender parity and agricultural roles in the Philippines, highlighting that while the country ranks high in general gender equality, rural female farmers face systemic barriers in land ownership, credit access, and strategic decision-making. It identifies the critical role of indigenous women as custodians of climate-resilient traditional knowledge and proposes a Gender Action Plan to empower women, youth, and indigenous peoples as agents of change in climate-resilient agriculture.

Costa Rica is implementing a decentralized approach to climate adaptation through 'Project – Plan A: Climate-Resilient Territories', which empowers local municipalities to develop their own climate actions based on territorial analysis and inclusive governance.

Costa Rica is implementing a strategy of local-scale climate adaptation, exemplified by the "Proyecto Plan A: Territorios resilientes ante el cambio climático," which empowers local governments to develop their own adaptation actions. Approximately 25% of the country's cantons, covering 46% of the territory, have generated specific climate adaptation actions by analyzing local threats and integrating climate variables into territorial planning. The approach emphasizes the inclusion of historically excluded groups, such as indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, women, and youth, in the governance and implementation of these measures.

The document is a directory of participants for the 'Taller Regional en Clima, Ambiente y Salud' (Regional Workshop on Climate, Environment, and Health) held in March 2023 in Neuquén, Argentina. It lists the institutional hosts and organizers, including the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), and the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE). The text provides detailed professional profiles of the organizers, members of transdisciplinary teams from various American countries, and a list of speakers and experts specializing in climate science, public health, epidemiology, and environmental governance.

In Banishanta village, Khulna district, farmers have formed the Banishanta Weather Club to combat the impacts of cyclones, floods, and high salinity. Supported by the NGO Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) and the Delta Research Initiative (DRI), the community uses digital tools, smartphone apps, and a Facebook messenger group called 'Banishanta Climate School' to access weather forecasts and agro-advisories. This locally led adaptation approach allows farmers to make informed decisions on sowing and irrigation, reducing the economic costs of climatic disasters and improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers and the Banojibi community.

The project seeks USD 25 million in GCF grants to modernize Namibia's meteorological and hydrological infrastructure, which currently lacks the density recommended by the WMO. The initiative aims to transition from fragmented, project-based early warning services to a comprehensive national system that provides sector-specific advisories for agriculture, health, and water management. Key components include the establishment of a National Forecasting Centre, the deployment of automated weather stations, and the integration of private sector financial mechanisms such as weather-index insurance and forecast-based cash transfers. The project specifically targets the resilience of vulnerable rural communities, women-headed households, and small-scale farmers who are highly dependent on rain-fed agriculture and severely impacted by erratic rainfall and prolonged droughts.

The ALBAdapt project seeks to transform Albania's climate services value chain to address high disaster risks from floods, droughts, and heat waves. The project focuses on three components: establishing a National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) to improve hydrometeorological data and coordination; implementing a multi-hazard impact-based early warning system (MHIEWS) to enable early action; and fostering climate-informed investments, specifically through Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the coastal zone. With a total indicative cost of EUR 49.95 million, the project targets the entire population of 2.8 million for early warning services and 400,000 people in the coastal zone for specific adaptation innovations.

The document reflects on the FRACTAL project, conducted between 2015 and 2021 in nine southern African urban areas, to identify principles for co-producing climate knowledge. It emphasizes the role of co-production in fostering partnerships and mutual learning between stakeholders to support climate-resilient urban development.

The document outlines a 24-month readiness project for Mauritius, implemented by the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). It aims to bridge the 'usability gap' where national experts struggle to translate scientific evidence into actionable climate interventions. The project focuses on creating a functional climate service network, developing data collection tools, and training stakeholders to integrate climate science into sectoral policies and GCF funding applications. Key target sectors include agriculture, water resources, and coastal zones. The proposal also emphasizes gender mainstreaming, aiming for 50% female representation in working groups and training, and includes a regional exchange visit to the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in Samoa.

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) is launching a program to train 'Climate, Environment and Health Responders' in the Americas. The initiative focuses on a transdisciplinary (TD) approach to bridge the science-policy gap, targeting a diverse group of stakeholders including government officials, researchers, and community leaders. The program consists of a 7-week virtual mentorship and training phase, an in-person regional grant development workshop, and the awarding of seed grants for pilot studies or further grant development. A key requirement for seed grants is the procurement of co-funding, with a particular emphasis on supporting member countries with lower science and technology capacity.

The "Climate and Environment Response for Health in the Americas" initiative is a three-phase program consisting of virtual training, a regional grant development workshop, and seed grants. It targets public sector actors, researchers, and community leaders to foster the co-creation of evidence-based public policies that address environmental determinants of health, with a strong emphasis on equity, diversity, and transdisciplinary collaboration.

The ClimVis Europe pilot project identifies a significant gap between the production of complex climate data and its usability for non-expert decision-makers and educators in Europe. Through surveys and focus groups across six countries, the project found that existing tools often exclude users due to a lack of native-language options—particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia—and a failure to link real-time extreme weather events with long-term climate trends. The findings advocate for the co-development of intuitive, multilinguistic tools that provide necessary context to support climate risk reduction and adaptation strategies.

Southern Africa has experienced warming exceeding the global average, leading to increased heatwaves, droughts, and economic losses. Future projections indicate severe risks to food systems, human health, and biodiversity, with significant GDP losses if warming reaches 2°C. Adaptation requires transformative, equity-based approaches and a substantial increase in climate finance and research funding for African institutions.

The report synthesizes findings from a 2021 scoping workshop involving over 150 experts to identify barriers and opportunities for integrating climate, environment, and health (CEH) data and policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Key obstacles include a lack of standardized, real-time data and a disconnect between academic research and policy application. The document advocates for a transdisciplinary 'community of practice' and identifies researchers, academics, and civil society as core partners for future collaborative research actions.

The report synthesizes findings from an August 2021 scoping workshop involving over 150 experts from 35 countries. It identifies critical data gaps, institutional silos, and a lack of transdisciplinary research as primary obstacles to integrating climate and environmental data into public health decision-making in Latin America and the Caribbean. The document advocates for the creation of a 'community of practice' to bridge the gap between academic research and policy implementation, emphasizing the need for open-data platforms, citizen science, and the inclusion of indigenous and local communities.

The review finds that Kenya has implemented numerous initiatives to enhance climate resilience in its agriculture sector, including the development of drought-tolerant crops, improved rangeland management, and the scaling of sustainable aquaculture. While the enabling environment has improved through legislation like the Climate Change Act (2016) and the establishment of the Climate Smart Agriculture Multistakeholder Platform, the report notes a critical lack of baseline data and indicators in the original NAP, making it difficult to accurately track progress. Despite these efforts, smallholder production remains limited due to persistent climatic shocks, including a 40-year record drought from 2019 to 2022.

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative, launched in 2011 by the World Food Program and Oxfam America, employs a four-pronged strategy—risk reduction, risk transfer, prudent risk-taking, and risk reserves—to help farmers adapt to climate risks. By 2020, the program provided index insurance and complementary services to nearly 180,000 farmers across ten countries, leveraging existing government safety nets and community partnerships to scale its impact.

The authors argue that the potential of climate change scenarios to inform policy strategies for limiting global warming is hindered by a lack of intermediary guidance services. To address this, they propose a 'climate change scenario service' framework designed to improve the salience, credibility, and legitimacy of these scenarios. The paper introduces the SENSES toolkit as a practical implementation of this concept, focusing primarily on mitigation scenarios while also providing materials for adaptation scenarios and impact projections.

The paper examines the gap between climate science and practice, arguing that top-down knowledge production often fails to meet user needs. Based on a five-year collaboration in Sweden involving researchers and local stakeholders, the study finds that while standard knowledge quality criteria (credibility, legitimacy, saliency, usability, and usefulness) are relevant, they are insufficient. The authors conclude that knowledge assessment must also account for case-specific circumstances, the decision-making context, and non-tangible outcomes to determine how knowledge is actually applied by adaptation planners.

The document argues that effective climate services require an intentional MEL design based on outcome mapping to foster collaboration and adaptive management. It details the use of boundary partners, outcome challenges, and progress markers to track behavioral changes rather than just direct development impacts. The briefing recommends specific tools like the 'most significant change' technique and outcome harvesting to capture complex, non-linear results. An illustrative example from the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia, demonstrates how these elements are applied to different stakeholder groups, including city officials and climate service providers.