Mark New visited ASA, IIASA

CARIAA

CARIAA is the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia program. Funded by IDRC and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), CARIAA’s goal is to develop robust evidence to inform how to increase the resilience of vulnerable populations in climate change hot spots in Africa and Asia. 

CARIAA aims to understand the nature of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in social-ecological climate change “hot-spots”: social ecological systems that are sensitive to climate change and also home to substantial numbers of the most vulnerable and poor in the world.  CARIAA looks at three different types of hot-spots – deltas, glacier-fed rivers and semi-arid areas – across four regions in Africa and Asia. The intent is to enable a structured comparative analysis, to support cross-learning between research settings, as well as to enable distillation of common and distinct challenges and solutions in different settings.