A person’s water security is affected by their gender, as is their likelihood to hold decision making positions about this vital resource. To increase water...
This DIIS Working Paper argues that advancing the climate security agenda requires approaches that integrate climate adaptation and finance into a ‘peace...
Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather events as a result of climate change pose existential challenges to Southern...
The task for governments in the Sahel region of Africa is significant. They must tackle the persistent problem of extremism, which is being further complicated...
Haiti is the most vulnerable country in Latin America and the Caribbean to climate change. Tackling environmental degradation and climate change impacts on...
The Climate Risk Profile for Eastern Africa provides forward-looking data on the climate in Eastern Africa with the goal of supporting resilience-oriented short...
The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been the site of decades of conflict between the Congolese army and nonstate armed...
WATCH: How Africa manages the different challenges posed by climate security will determine the future developmental agenda of the continent and its people...
The Sahel faces mounting human security and development challenges due to the complex interplay of diverse and growing risks in the region, including climate...
To mark the upcoming International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the authors spoke with Lola Cabnal, a Guatemalan indigenous leader, to discuss the...
Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded a...
The development of Africa was spotlighted at a key UN meeting on Wednesday, with attention focused on advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and...
Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...
The objective of this report is to support the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) in promoting data-driven and evidence-based approaches in the Sahel...
Oversimplifications of the pastoralist-conflict equation and a lack of understanding of pastoralist systems and the way they are governed has led to...