Advancing Climate and Health Action through the G20

With South Africa hosting the G20, Wellcome recognized the importance of understanding pan-African priorities and translating them into policy actions within the G20 forum. To achieve this,…

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Advancing Infectious Disease Action through the G20

With South Africa hosting the G20, Wellcome recognized the importance of understanding pan-African priorities and translating them into policy actions within the G20 forum. To…

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Allocating international loss and damage finance through national climate funds: prospects for African LDCs

The new loss and damage funding framework under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) emphasises the importance of channeling support through national systems and mechanisms. This…

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Effective interventions in protection of survivors of GBV in Kenya

There is increasing global concern regarding gender-based  violence (GBV ) as a public health issue. World- wide, the  estimated lifetime prevalence of GBV among women is between …

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Assessing the effectiveness of climate adaptation interventions in East Africa

Contributors:  Joanes Atela¹, Mary Nantongo², Humphrey Agevi¹, Washington Kanyangi¹, Florence Onyango¹ BACKGROUND  East Africa faces severe climate change impacts due…

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The Impact of Community Based Conservation on Pastoralist’s Climate Change Adaptation

The Arid and Semi-Arid lands of Northern Kenya constitute about 80% of the country’s land mass and are inhabited by pastoralists–communities that predominantly rely on mobile livestock…

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Projected climate change and its potential impact on cattle in Kajiado County

Globally, pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities are amongst the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (Thornton et al., 2009). Increasing climate variability and extreme events will affect livestock…

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Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways: Climate Change and Agriculture

Given the highly climate-sensitive character of agricultural production, climate change  has obvious and important ramifications for agricultural commercialisation, which  in turn has a bearing on…

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Gendered Impacts of Covid19

In the context that we live in, risks abound and are systemic in nature. Proliferating risks are emerging in ways never anticipated before. We now live in…

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Decolonising Academic Collaboration

As debates on the colonial legacies in South North academic collaboration continue, there is a  persistent need to address the structures of  inequality in research partnerships from…

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