The Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Emerging Leadership for Asia's Future program provides highly qualified, young professionals from Asia with an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen their leadership skills and gain in-depth knowledge of Asia's critical development challenges. The year-long professional advancement program is designed to be...

The growing interest in adaptation engagements reflects policy development that calls for multilevel climate change adaptation. In Southeast Asia, several initiatives have been made particularly under the leadership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). These include declarations to the 2007 Bali and 2009 Copenhagen UN Conferences...

This five-week course launched by the United Nations Environment Programme and the University of Geneva will focus on climate change adaptation for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The course will present key concepts regarding issues to climate change adaptation and tools required to analyze...

This adaptation note describes Climate-smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM)—a framework that cohesively integrates disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and development. The note outlines the three main pillars to help address the root causes of vulnerability. It also showcases a number of CSDRM attempts of...

This working paper highlights key concerns and principles that emerged from three consultative events in Colombia, Kenya and Indonesia where stakeholders discussed the best ways to include climate change in the sustainable development goals in a manner which encourages climate compatible development. Considering 2015 is...

This Annual Report expresses Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)’s vision and approach which received an endorsement this year, along with the award of additional funding from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. This additional funding with the continued support from the Government of...

This report documents the process and findings of a series of participatory Vulnerability Assessments (VAs) undertaken as part of the Mekong Building Climate Resilience in Asian Cities (M-BRACE) program. M-BRACE is a four-year collaboration to strengthen the capacity of city stakeholders to assess changing patterns...

This publication analyzes vulnerabilities of 12 municipalities in Laguna, Philippines using gender, geographic location, ethnicity, socio-cultural, demographic, and political economic variables, and maps the relative vulnerability of the communities based on their exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to climate change-related risks and hazards. The maps...

This publication highlights the social and gender dimension on the Philippine component of the International Development Research Center funded project entitled Building Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change in Southeast Asia. It documents how men and women are differently affected by climate change and other...

This guide aims to assist those responsible for the management of Natural World Heritage Sites to better understand how climate change may affect features of the site that contributes to its Outstanding Universal Value and to offer ideas for identifying options for adapting to climate...