The world needs leadership on climate change and young people are stepping up to the challenge!

The DRFN in partnership with HSF-Kenya have embarked on activities that are specifically geared towards Namibian youth and their role in ensuring climate action. This target group is selected as they constitute the highest percentage of the population and given that they need to see Namibia into the future; they must start having serious discussions around issues of environmental justice today and most importantly start taking climate action to ensure a fair and equitable future for future generatio...

Understanding who is vulnerable to what stressors, hazards and issues is a very important starting point in deciding how to adapt to climate and other hazards and reduce vulnerability. Too often, interventions are put in place that do not target the groups or individuals that are the most vulnerable and do not understand the local realities of living with and responding to multiple hazards and issues.

Therefore, a Vulnerability and and Risk Assessment (VRA) Training was facilitated by DRFN and UNAM for staff from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare as a tool that provides informa...

The Executing Entity (EE) for the Adaptation Funds project in Namibia, NamWater has issued a tender for the construction of desalination pilot plants at Grunau and Bethanie, in the Kharas region. These plants will be powered by renewable energy and membrane technology and desalination is the preferred technology to improve the quality of brackish water; often found in aquifers in southern Namibia. These pilot plants will be used to provide knowledge and skills on how to effectively and efficiently desalinate poor quality groundwater on a small-scale, using hybrid renewable energy technology.

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The Adaptation Fund is hosting the sixth Climate Finance Readiness Seminar for accredited national implementing entities (NIEs) from 5-9 August 2019 in St. John’s, Antigua & Barbuda.

The Climate Finance Readiness Seminar is an annual event that is meant to facilitate experience sharing and learning as well as provide information that is useful to NIEs in performing their implementing entity role.

 Notable topics to be discussed this year include gender, innovation in climate change adaptation, and an introduction of the Adaptation Fund’s Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG). NIEs will a...