A roadmap for African resilience: addressing transboundary and cascading climate risks
The actions proposed in this roadmap were generated at a multi-stakeholder policy dialogue held in July 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. This brought together 30 representatives from organizations at the forefront of dealing with transboundary climate risks in Africa, including Regional Economic Communities (RECs): the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). They are also informed by world-leading experts on transboundary climate risk management, and an in-depth political economy analysis of the cooperation and integration mechanisms, policies and financing instruments of the African Union (AU) and the RECs (Opitz-Stapleton et al., 2023, forthcoming).
This roadmap is envisioned as a potential guide for an implementation plan: a first step in the development of longer-term partnerships to strengthen Africa’s resilience to transboundary and cascading climate risks.
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