New CLARE research projects announced

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have just announced the first cohort of projects under the Climate Adaptation and Resilience research Initiative (CLARE). These projects will work in over 26 countries across Africa and the Indo-Pacific, in partnership with researchers, decision makers and civil society organisations.

CLARE is jointly designed and run by the UK FCDO and IDRC. Through long-term commitments and partnerships worldwide, and needs-driven, action-focused research, the UK and Canada are bridging critical gaps between science and action: developing new tools and supporting partner governments, communities, and the private sector to use evidence and innovation to drive effective solutions to the climate challenge, whilst building the capacity of both those carrying out the research and those using the resulting evidence.

CLARE is proud to be an ARA affiliated programme and is committed to implement the Adaptation Research for Impact Principles.

The new CLARE landing page will include more information as they become available CLARE CLARE (clareprogramme.org)

Professor Charlotte Watts, UK FCDO Chief Scientific Adviser, said: “We are proud to see these projects taking shape, enabled by the long-standing, successful partnership between IDRC and FCDO and by exciting partnerships with researchers and practitioners around the world. We are looking forward to seeing these partners co-producing needs-driven, action-oriented research that will use science and innovation to address short-term climate shocks whilst enabling long-term, sustainable and equitable development. As CLARE’s largest donor, this is as a great example of the UK fulfilling its COP26 commitments to the initiative and to endorsing the ARA’s Adaptation Research for Impact Principles.”

Julie Shouldice, Acting President of IDRC, said: IDRC’s longstanding partnership with the UK has been of great value for the advancement of sustainable development. Together, the CLARE projects announced today represent the focus of our partnership supporting Southern-led climate-adaptation research to identify innovative solutions and help build long-term resilience while promoting gender equality and inclusion. The teams leading this first group of CLARE projects will now embark on their action-oriented research, with the aim of enabling a more climate-resilient future for people in the multiple countries across Africa and Asia where they will be implemented.