Cate Urban 8/24/16 Cate Urban 8/24/16

USAID/Climate Change Adaptation Project Preparation Facility for Asia and the Pacific

Improving national government access to climate change adaptation financing and accelerating investment proposals

Cate Urban 6/30/15 Cate Urban 6/30/15

USAID Biodiversity Policy

This Policy represents a recommitment of USAID to conserve biodiversity through strategic actions to reduce threats and drivers, as well as a new focus on integrating biodiversity conservation with other development sectors. A roadmap for implementation highlights the most critical steps necessary for implementing this Policy. (See Annex II.)

Cate Urban 2/27/15 Cate Urban 2/27/15

Climate Change and Conflict: An Annex to the USAID Climate-resilient Development Framework

This paper provides a set of guidelines for USAID and its partners to employ in planning, designing, implementing, and learning from programs where climate change and conflict have the potential to interact.

Cate Urban 8/8/14 Cate Urban 8/8/14

USAID Support to National Adaptation Planning (NAP) Processes

Opportunities presented by the NAP process

Cate Urban 7/31/14 Cate Urban 7/31/14

Climate Change and Conflict: Findings and Lessons Learned From Five Case Studies in Seven Countries

Cate Urban 11/27/13 Cate Urban 11/27/13

Climate Change and Conflict in West African Cities: A Policy Brief on Findings From Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana

To address the relative lack of research on climate-conflict linkages in large urban areas, USAID asked the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability (FESS) to conduct a case study on two major West African cities – Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana. Field research was carried out for the case study in June and August 2013, and this policy brief presents the findings on the central questions addressed by that investigation: Are the effects of climate change likely to lead to chaotic and conflictive scenarios in West African cities? If so, under what circumstances and over what time frame; and are there preventive actions that governments and donors should take?

Cate Urban 3/29/13 Cate Urban 3/29/13

USAID Climate Change and Development Strategy: Adaptation Pillar Results Framework

Adaptation Pillar Results Framework

Cate Urban 7/31/12 Cate Urban 7/31/12

Climate Change Adaptation at USAID

To strengthen development outcomes through direct climate change program investments and by integrating climate change throughout USAID programming, learning, policy dialogues, and internal operations.

Cate Urban 6/29/12 Cate Urban 6/29/12

Follow the Water: Emerging Issues of Climate Change and Conflict in Peru

This study explores how the effects of climate change on water quantity, quality, and access may be factoring into aspects of localized instability, fragility, and conflict in Peru. To help guide the methodological approach, FESS developed a seven-phase framework—the Climate Change and Conflict Assessment Framework (CCCAF). The framework emphasizes one of the main conclusions of recent conflict analysis: conflict is always the result of the interactions of multiple political, economic, social, historical, and cultural factors, and these must be taken into account in any analysis. Moreover, the quality of governance and the resilience of political, economic, and social institutions all mediate the relationship between environmental change and conflict in important ways. The influence of climate change and climate-related policy and program responses on instability and conflict can only be understood within this web of relationships.

Cate Urban 1/31/12 Cate Urban 1/31/12

USAID Climate Change and Development Strategy 2012-2016

USAID’s work on climate change fits into a larger domestic and international policy context and is guided by Administration policy as developed in the President’s Global Development Policy, the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, USAID Forward, and the GCCI. Additionally, USAID’s Policy Framework 20112015 defines the following as one of seven Core Development Objectives for the Agency: Reduce Climate Change Impacts and Promote Low Emissions Growth. USAID has a long history of programming in sectors relevant to climate change and will draw lessons learned from this history to shape efforts under this strategy. The goal of USAID’s 2012-2015 Climate Change and Development Strategy is to enable countries to accelerate their transition to climate resilient low emission sustainable economic development.

Cate Urban 12/20/11 Cate Urban 12/20/11

Climate Threats, Fragility, and Conflict Risks

How do the set of countries that are most threatened for heightened climate risks relate to the set of fragile or conflict‐ affected states?

Cate Urban 7/20/11 Cate Urban 7/20/11

Climate Change Adaptation at USAID: Learning from Experience

USAID’s Global Climate Change Initiative assists countries as they develop in ways that reduce emissions while building resilience to climate change impacts.

Cate Urban 10/7/09 Cate Urban 10/7/09

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Conflict: A Preliminary Review of the Issues

The consensus of climate scientists on the probable harmful effects of climate change and the need for climate adaptation has grown stronger in recent years. However, knowledge about the potential links between climate change and conflict, as well as the appropriate climate adaptation measures to prevent or mitigate conflict, remains limited and underdeveloped. This discussion paper provides an initial examination of climate change and climate adaptation, how and where climate change may be linked to conflict, and some of the implications of these linkages for development agencies.

Cate Urban 8/7/07 Cate Urban 8/7/07

USAID Climate Change Adaptation Guidance Manual

USAID Adaptation Goals: Educate project planners, Increase resilience of projects, Approach.