CCAPS Looks to Map Climate-Related Aid in Africa

The New Security Beat takes a close look at the CCAPS program's research on identifying and tracking climate aid in Malawi in the article, CCAPS Looks to Map Climate-Related Aid in Africa. CCAPS researchers have applied their climate coding methodology to all official development aid projects in Malawi, assessing each project activity for its relevance to climate change adaptation. Based on their analysis, only one to two percent of aid to Malawi is considered climate aid.

12 September 2012

Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked Aid to Malawi

Bernard Appiah's piece, Study Highlights Lack of Climate-linked aid to Malawi, explores the Malawi Geocoded and Climate-Coded Aid Dataset and its potential to facilitate donor coordination. Only one to two percent of aid to Malawi is considered climate aid, according to Kate Weaver and the CCAPS adaptation aid team.

29 August 2012

Development Data Challenge

Last week's Development Data Challenge, hosted by the Guardian, examined if and how aid datasets can be used to learn more about international development. The CCAPS program's geo-coded dataset of aid activities in Malawi, developed in partnership with AidData and the Ministry of Finance of Malawi, was included in the Development Data Challenge and coded for visualization.

09 August 2012

Strauss Center Releases New Data on Climate Aid in Africa

The Strauss Center's Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program today released the first-ever dataset tracking all climate aid activities in a single country. In the pilot study, CCAPS researchers applied their new "climate coding" methodology to all official development aid projects in Malawi's Aid Management Platform, assessing each project activity for its relevance to climate change adaptation.

20 July 2012

Sustainability Begins with Power in Malawi

(Lisa Friedman, E&E reporter) The United States has flipped the switch on a $350 million power project to light up one of Africa's poorest countries.The aid to Malawi from the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), a congressionally funded development institution, was reinstated this month after a suspension sparked by concerns over human rights violations and violent government response to citizen protests.

18 April 2012

Where Are Donors Working in Malawi? A New Dataset Sheds Light

This week, CCAPS and AidData published a first-of-its-kind geocoded dataset from the Government of Malawi’s Aid Management Platform. These data are also available through the CCAPS mapping tool, which enables users to overlay and visualize data on climate change vulnerability, conflict, and aid, and analyze how these issues intersect in Africa.

30 November 2011

Better Tracking of Adaptation Aid

In a new research brief released today, CCAPS researchers Kate Weaver and Christian Peratsakis discuss why identifying where development aid has been effectively deployed is critical to addressing climate security risks and building adaptive capacity in Africa. The research brief - Can Better Tracking of Adaptation Aid Reduce Climate Change Vulnerabilities on the Ground? - outlines CCAPS work to geocode all aid projects in Malawi. The work is a collaboration between CCAPS, the Ministry of Finance of Malawi, Development Gateway, and AidData to assess how adaptation fits within development efforts in the country.

11 April 2011

AidData, CCAPS, and Government of Malawi to Geocode Aid Information

Via AidData's April 2011 Newsletter: AidData and the Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS) at the University of Texas are working with Malawi's Ministry of Finance to geo-enable aid activity information for better planning and coordination.

09 February 2011

CCAPS Partners with UNDP in Kenya

The CCAPS program is partnering with the United Nations Development Program in Nairobi in an effort to better understand, define and track international financial flows for climate change adaptation. A key component of this collaboration will be an internship jointly hosted by CCAPS and UNDP at the UNDP headquarters in Nairobi in the summer of 2011.

11 November 2010

CCAPS Partners with Development Gateway

The CCAPS program is partnering with Development Gateway and AidData to better track and understand development aid for climate change adaptation in Africa. As part of this endeavor, CCAPS and Development Gateway have started an internship program for University of Texas students at Development Gateway in Washington, DC for summer 2011. The program is designed to complement existing internships that have been supported by the College of William & Mary and Brigham Young University as a key component of the AidData project.