1. Responding to Climate Stress : CARIAA Programme’s Theory of Change Evans Kituyi & Michele Leone IDRC Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa

2. Overview  Introducing CARIAA: Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia  The CARIAA Model features  Consortia  The Hot-Spots  Cross-Consortia initiatives  Our Theory of Change  Conclusion

3. What is CARIAA? 7-year Partnership with DFID $70 million, ending 2019 Builds upon Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) which closed in 2012

4. Linking Research to Policy & Practice in the hot-spots Generate new knowledge Promote research uptake Strengthen adaptation expertise Our overarching aim: To develop robust evidence on how to increase the resilience of vulnerable populations in climate change hot spots in Africa and Asia.

5. A Hot-spot Approach Himalayan Adaptation, Water & Resilience Pathways to Resilience in Semi- arid Economies Deltas, Vulnerability & Climate Change: Migration as Adaptation Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions

6. A Consortium Approach Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) Core consortia members Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) Himalayan Adaptation, Water, and Resilience Research (HI-AWARE) Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) Research Policy Practice

7. Collaborative Program Architecture Cross-cutting Themes Migration Gender & equity Economics Climate science Scenarios Country Tables Kenya Ghana India Bangladesh Burkina Faso Pakistan Program Strategies Knowledge management Communications Monitoring and evaluation  Stakeholder engagement

8. The CARIAA Theory of Change

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