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The 'Climate and Society Game' is an interactive training tool designed to explore how gender and social roles impact climate vulnerability and resilience. The South Asia edition uses a fictional Indian coastal neighbourhood, Krishna Nagar, to simulate consultations and the development of adaptation plans through role-play with diverse character cards.

This policy brief by ICLEI South Asia examines the necessity of integrating local government actions into national planning to enhance urban resilience in Bangladesh. It highlights the gap between national policies and on-the-ground realities, recommending improved vertical integration, increased climate finance for municipalities, and technical capacity building for local officials to meet national and international climate commitments.

This case study describes the process Peru undertook between 2014 and 2020 to integrate gender, intercultural, and intergenerational perspectives into its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and broader climate change management framework.

This policy brief examines the implementation of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Nepal, highlighting the gap between national mandates and local execution. It argues that integrating gender-responsive budgeting with climate budget codes is essential to enhance the adaptive capacity of women, particularly in the agrarian sector, and recommends capacity building for local leaders and improved monitoring of expenditure impacts.

This policy brief examines the critical role of peri-urban ecosystems in India, highlighting how rapid urbanisation and ambiguous administrative boundaries lead to the neglect of these areas. It argues that preserving peri-urban ecosystems is essential for city resilience, food security, and climate adaptation, and recommends integrated, participatory planning to bridge the rural-urban divide.

This research paper by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) identifies key strategies to accelerate climate change adaptation across Africa. Based on interviews with African scientists and practitioners, the paper advocates for a shift toward locally-led, inclusive solutions that integrate indigenous knowledge with scientific projections. It proposes three primary investment pillars: enhancing people's skills and knowledge, building climate-resilient economies, and investing in nature-based solutions.

This 2021 report by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) examines Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) in Nairobi, finding that 48.2% of daily trips are made by walking or cycling. Despite its popularity, NMT users account for 66.3% of traffic fatalities, with pedestrians being the most vulnerable. The study identifies 10 deadliest corridors responsible for 55.5% of deaths and highlights severe infrastructure deficits, including a lack of protected footpaths and cycle lanes. It recommends adopting a 'Vision Zero' strategy, improving street lighting, and enhancing law enforcement to protect low-income users who rely on NMT due to a lack of affordable alternatives.

This practical guide by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) provides a framework for integrating gender-responsive approaches into climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. It emphasizes that gender-blind approaches risk exacerbating inequalities and undermining climate resilience, while intentional gender-responsive designs lead to more sustainable and effective outcomes. The guide outlines a project cycle involving the understanding of people's needs, assessing solutions, and implementing a Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning (MEL) system with sex-disaggregated indicators.

This executive summary describes a scoping study on Ecosystem-based Flood Risk Management in five Sub-Saharan cities: Accra, Cape Town, Durban, Nairobi, and Mombasa. It evaluates the integration of nature-based solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) alongside traditional grey infrastructure to address urban flooding exacerbated by climate change, rapid urbanization, and poor urban planning.

This document is a title and credits page for a report titled "People’s different vulnerabilities to climate change and their different abilities to be change-makers," produced by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network in 2021.

This fact sheet describes the 'Voices from the Frontline of Covid-19' project, a collaboration between the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). The project documented 50 stories from June 2020 to October 2021 to understand how communities in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean navigated the combined shocks of the pandemic and climate change.

This report synthesises 50 'Voices from the Frontline' stories from June 2020 to October 2021, documenting how local communities in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean coped with the compounding effects of Covid-19, climate change, and socioeconomic vulnerability. It examines these experiences through the lens of several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting grassroots resilience and the need for external actors to support locally-led solutions.

The 'Climate and Society' game is a training tool designed to illustrate how social, economic, and physical attributes—such as gender, age, and socio-economic status—create varying levels of climate vulnerability and adaptive capacity. Using fictional scenarios in Ethiopia, India, and Latin America, the game encourages participants to 'walk in other people's shoes' to identify barriers to participation in climate planning. The guide provides strategies for making consultations and adaptation interventions more inclusive by adjusting timing, location, and personnel to accommodate marginalized groups.

This document is a role-playing character profile for a 13-year-old girl named Hanna, used in a 'Social Lottery' game to simulate the impacts of drought and climate challenges in Ethiopia.

This document is a scenario card for a role-playing exercise centered on the town of Kul-Bayne in Ethiopia, designed to explore climate vulnerability and the development of resilience plans in response to drought and resource scarcity.

This document is a role-playing scenario for a 'social lottery' game designed to simulate the experiences of a 22-year-old commercial sex worker living with HIV in Ethiopia during a drought.

The Market Approaches to Resilience (MAR) project (2015-19) in rural Ethiopia enhanced climate resilience for pastoralist communities by combining microfinance services with natural resource management. By intentionally targeting women for financial empowerment, the project created a 'multiplier effect' that improved household wellbeing and reduced the necessity for long-distance migration during droughts. The project reached 188,902 people and emphasized that systemic resilience requires long-term funding and the creation of a supportive institutional environment.

This policy brief argues for increased investment in resilience in Malawi to mitigate the rising economic costs of extreme weather events. It introduces the 'triple dividend' of resilience—avoided losses, unlocked development potential, and co-benefits—and provides evidence from various sectors and regions showing that such investments are highly cost-effective compared to humanitarian aid.

This case study describes a climate-smart agriculture initiative led by the Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) in Campierganj, Uttar Pradesh, India. The project focuses on gender-responsive training to address increasing climate volatility, including unpredictable rains and flash floods, by empowering women who constitute over 40% of the local agricultural workforce.

This case study by the Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) examines the challenges of fostering climate resilience in the peri-urban areas of Uttar Pradesh, India. It argues that current urban development policies treat populations as homogeneous, ignoring gender, class, and age differences that affect vulnerability to climate hazards. The document advocates for gender-responsive, climate-smart development solutions that increase women's participation in decision-making and address the silos between urban, peri-urban, and rural governance.