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

Beyond Projects and Reports: Eight Things We Want to See in the Climate Adaptation Landscape This Year At PlanAdapt, we work to enable climate adaptation that is effective, economically just, and socially inclusive. But this work does not happen in a vacuum. Recent insights underscore a critical reality: climate risks are compounding, and the window Read More

New Partnership: Climate Adaptation Research & Consulting (CARC) and AIMS Collaborate to Advance Climate Adaptation Capacity in Rwanda and Beyond A new collaboration aims to connect climate adaptation, mathematical sciences, professional training, and applied research for stronger evidence-based action We are pleased to announce that our Rwanda-based affiliate, Climate Adaptation Research & Consulting (CARC), has Read More

Democratizing Climate Knowledge: A New Adaptation Story for Rwanda Reprint of an article by Michel Nkurunziza, published at www.rwandainspirer.com on 14 January 2026 When Martin Rokitzki, Managing Director of PlanAdapt, speaks about climate adaptation, he does not frame it as an environmental issue alone. For him, adaptation is about people, systems, and survival in a Read More