Beyond Heat Action Plans: What Are People Already Doing to Adapt? Why autonomous heat adaptation deserves a place in how we plan for heat Across South and Southeast Asia, heat is heard before it is measured. It is in the whirr of coolers and fans by mid-morning, in shutters coming down at noon, in markets Read More

How Do We Know Whether Our Capacity Strengthening Efforts Are Working? A practical framework for matching your monitoring, evaluation and learning approach to different capacity strengthening approaches Acknowledgement: With thanks to Carys Richards, Phuu Thit Kyyw, Martin Rokitzki and  Catherine Fisher for their contributions to the thinking underpinning this work. Consider a common scenario: You Read More

Making Capacity Strengthening More Gender-Equitable and Inclusive: The GEI Checklist for Inclusive Events Capacity Strengthening in practice in Diani, Kenya during the Communication & Dissemination Workshop held in December 2025 What does it actually mean to make a capacity strengthening approach more gender-equitable and inclusive in the context of adaptation and resilience? It can be Read More

Capacity Strengthening in CLARE: What Learners Valued Capacity strengthening is often described through the usual activities: workshops, trainings, mentoring sessions, fellowships, peer learning, toolkits, field visits and webinars. These activities matter. But they are only part of the story. Across CLARE, capacity strengthening has taken many different forms. Some approaches were designed to build technical Read More

Mining the Untapped: Why Climate Adaptation Must Look Beyond Formal Systems Recognising the Hidden Power of Informal Systems, Autonomous Adaptation, and Social Innovation in a Changing Climate Are We Looking in the Wrong Places? Much of today’s climate adaptation effort is still centred on formal systems — governments, policies, institutions, and large-scale finance mechanisms. These Read More