Advancing Capacity to support Climate Change Adaptation

Advancing Capacity to support Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA): Five Pilot Projects

Project Details
Organisation(s) involved: UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research), ENDA-TM (Environnement et Developpement du Tiers-Monde), SEI Oxford Office, CSAG-UCT (Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town), START (Global Change SysTem for Analysis Research & Training), START SE ASIA Regional Centre, START Temperate East Asia Regional Centre and IDRC
Project Objective/ Description: This project seeks to reduce the vulnerability of poor populations in sub-Saharan Africa to climate change by mobilizing scientists and all the other actors concerned to inform political decision-making. It will do so by means of five pilot projects in rural and urban populations.
Location: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso
Contact: Mr. Mamadou Moussa DIAKHITÉ, mamadou.diakhite@unitar.org