Responding to Climate Stress:

CARIAA Programme’s Theory of Change

Evans Kituyi & Michele Leone IDRC Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa

Overview Introducing CARIAA:

Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia

The CARIAA Model features Consortia The Hot-Spots Cross-Consortia initiatives

Our Theory of Change Conclusion

What is CARIAA?

• 7-year Partnership with DFID

• $70 million, ending 2019

• Builds upon Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) which closed in 2012

Linking Research to Policy & Practice in the hot-spots

Generate new

knowledge

Promote research uptake

Strengthen adaptation expertise

Our overarching aim: To develop robust evidence

on how to increase the resilience of vulnerable

populations in climate change hot spots in Africa and Asia.

A Hot-spot Approach

Himalayan Adaptation, Water & Resilience

Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies

Deltas, Vulnerability & Climate Change: Migration as Adaptation

Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions

A Consortium Approach

Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)Core consortia members

Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions

(ASSAR)

Himalayan Adaptation, Water, and Resilience Research (HI-AWARE)

Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies

(PRISE)

Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change:

Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA)

• Research

• Policy

• Practice

Collaborative Program Architecture

Cross-cutting Themes

• Migration• Gender & equity• Economics • Climate science• Scenarios

Country Tables• Kenya • Ghana• India• Bangladesh• Burkina Faso• Pakistan

Program Strategies

•Knowledge management•Communications•Monitoring and evaluation

Stakeholder engagement

The CARIAA Theory of Change

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