COP26 Workshop: Building Transformational Pathways to Adaptation in Eastern Africa

View more details about the workshop in the Workshop programme and abstracts.

Network members will discuss different aspects of climate change and development in East Africa on the following topics:

1. What research is needed to respond to the adaptation gap?

Coastal community climate change vulnerability and adaptation: A case of coastal communities of Zanzibar islets

• Abdalla Hamad Bakar - The State University of Zanzibar

Understanding the Dynamics of Water Scarcity and Violence in Kenya

• Professor David M Anderson, Faculty of History, University of Warwick
• Professor Kennedy Agade Mkutu, USIU, Nairobi

2. How to evaluate the feasibility of adaptation options and outcomes for resilient and sustainable development?

Addressing Social Justice, Capacity Building and Governance Through Transformative Adaptation Research in Kenya, East Africa.

• Wilson Kipkore - University of Eldoret

Sensing Past, Present, and Future Climate Change Challenges: Resilient Ecosystems, Societies and Environments Across the Kenya-Tanzania Borderlands

• Professor Robert Marchant, Department of Environment & Geography, University of York
• Professor Paul Lane, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
• Professor Daniel Olago, Institute for Climate Change & Adaptation, University of Nairobi
• Dr Jane Humphris, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi
• Dr Rebecca Kariuki, Nelson Mandela Institute of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania.

3. What examples are there of transformative adaptation research enabling action through addressing social justice, capacity building and governance?

Community-led Clean Energy and Restoration of the Mau Forest Complex of Kenya to support Global Climate Action.

• PROCOL Kenya and Strathmore University:
• Jaqueline McGlade,

• PROCOL Kenya:

• E.Njau, S.Ntaiyia, J.Kones, S.Tuwei, J.Bitok, B. Koila, I.Selim, F. Keriasek, A. Tirra,
• Sekenani Environmental Technology Centre, Maasai Mara, Kenya:

• P.Letura, J.Moniko, E.Karia, V. Ochieng

4. How can research funders, universities, and data managers best champion inclusive, urgent, and solutions-oriented adaptation research?

Re-thinking the Role of Smallholder Farmers in Climate Change Adaptation

• Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London:

• Sam Lunn-Rockliffe, Matthew Davies, Henrietta Moore.

• PROCOL Kenya:

• T. Kiprutto, H. Chepto, A. Yano, N. Bailengo, N. Kiplagat, J. Cheptorus.

• University of Eldoret:

• W. Kipkore

• East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya:

• B. Malombe

Expert Panel Membership:

• Dr Paulina Aldunce, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Dr Shuaib Lwasa, Global Centre on Adaptation, the Netherlands
• Dr Michelle Mycoo, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.
• Dr Anjal Prakash, Indian School of Business, India
• Professor Mark Pelling, King’s College London, UK

View more details about the workshop in the Workshop programme and abstracts.

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