For as long as she can remember, Déborah has been interested in helping others. When the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance started working with her community Déborah joined the first aid brigade. “I have always wanted to help the sick, those who have a hard time”. 

The evidence is clear: climate finance is not going to the most climate-vulnerable countries and populations. The majority of the most climate-vulnerable countries received less than $20 per person per year in climate change adaptation financing from 2010–2017.

Communities trying to adapt to the impacts of a heating planet need money and more local decision-making power to succeed

Billions needed to help people adapt to uncertain future and increasing weather-related hazards

By any measure, 2020 has been a shocker for humanity. In this blog Practical Action’s Colin McQuistan reflects on the challenges we’ve faced, and those we need to gear up to tackle as we approach the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. 

Back to the future: planning for long term impacts part one.  This is the first in a series of four blogs about long term impacts of Practical Action’s work where we ask: what can we learn from past projects? What can we do now to ensure that positive impacts last in time? These blogs summarize […]

Back to the future: planning for long term impacts part two.  In this second of four blogs on lasting changes, we discuss durability factors based on completed Disaster Risk Reduction projects. In a series of international workshops we identified key aspects for longevity and sustained impact, taking into account scales and project cycle, as well […]

Back to the future: planning for long term impacts part three.  In this third of four blogs on lasting changes, we discuss what we can do now to better embed “long term” thinking in our current work. We present a “durability action template” to reflect on what to expect five years after a project ends […]

Back to the future: planning for long term impacts part four.  In this fourth and last blog on enduring changes, we discuss what we learnt by organizing remote and interactive workshops, with practical tips to take into account the time, vision, trust, technology, and fun components.