CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Fall 2013 Series
12:00 - 1:00 PM

RESEARCH WITH A POLICY IMPACT

October 16, 2013

CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION AND ADAPTATION DECISION-MAKING IN THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR IN EAST AFRICA: THREE CASES

by Amy Quandt, Arielle Tozier de la Poterie, and Kanmani Venkateswaran, Environmental Studies Program and Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado Boulder

CSTPR Conference Room, 1333 Grandview Avenue

Free and open to the public

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About the Internship Program: This program seeks to improve climate change communication and adaptation decision-making in response to climate variability and change within the humanitarian sector. It connects humanitarian practitioners from the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre [RC/RC CC] an affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [IFRC] with science-policy graduate student researchers at the University of Colorado, to accomplish three specific goals:

1. to improve the capacity of humanitarian practitioners within IFRC network at the interface of climate science, policy and practice
2. to forge a unique partnership and facilitate collaborations between CU and RC/RC CC
3. to help meet needs and gaps as well as work as a research clearing house in the stated themes climate change communication and adaptation decision-making in response to climate variability and change, as identified through RC/RC CC priorities and projects

This internship program placed 3 graduate students in IFRC regional field offices in Southern and East Africa for a period of approximately 3 months.

Students designed their own program of work in conjunction with their CU Boulder advisor and a RC/RC CC supervisor.