Producing results through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative

in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)

From Research

to Policy and Practice

www.idrc.ca/cariaa #cariaa cariaa@idrc.ca

Multiple vulnerabilities

Large Deltas Glacier-fed River Basins

Semi-Arid Zones

Shared challenges

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Our strategy

Putting new knowledge into use in climate change hot spots

Context

$70mil. CAD over 7 years in Africa + Asia

Joint investment between DFID and IDRC, building on first

collaboration of $60mil. over 6 years in Africa (2006-2012)

Will fund 3 interdisciplinary research consortia with up to 5

members each

Consortium-led Research

Broad-based, interdisciplinary expertise for tackling complex

challenges

Long-term collective investment

Southern-led collaboration

Multiplies chances for impact

Opportunities for collective learning and knowledge co-

creation around a shared agenda

We will work in three climate change

hot spots in Africa and Asia to

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.

Scaling up Good Practices

The Illimani watershed (Bolivia)

Community/scientist collaboration

Locally-led adaptation policy

development

New cadre of adaptation researchers

Sustained program outcomes

Some keys to success…

1. Ensure our work is policy relevant

2. Get our work into the right hands

3. Monitor what is working; learn from what works as we

develop

Some keys to success… 4. Assemble consortia that will help us to break new ground,

address real needs, and have a lasting influence

Global call

• Call for concept notes: early 2013

Establish consortia

• Develop full consortia and start work: June-Oct 2013

Carry out research

• About $15 mil. per consortium 2013-2019

Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)

Contribute today

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Contact us online

• www.idrc.ca/cariaa

• cariaa@idrc.ca

Speak with us

• Isabelle Proulx

• Evans Kituyi

• Michele Leone

• K.S. Murali

• Blane Harvey

• Hayley Price

• Ken De Souza