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 Consider a common scenario: You have just completed a three-day training workshop on climate vulnerability assessments. Participant feedback is overwhelmingly positive – the facilitators were excellent, and the 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