Contributions to climate action : 14 years of adaptation research at IDRC

This report presents key contributions of IDRC to climate action over the past 14 years, highlighting implications for future programming and for the research community at large. IDRC’s support for research on climate change adaptation has increasingly focused on three major themes: 1) Influencing policy and practice 2) Ensuring impact at scale, and 3) Integrating gender and social equity considerations. The report recognizes four key lessons: the importance of direct research investment in the Global South; the need to move beyond seeing gender as a vulnerability; the value in recognizing multiple dimensions of social inequity; and the critical need for capacity building to develop climate leaders