Valentina Mazzucato awarded NWA-ORC grant
Together with a consortium of 7 African universities, 7 Dutch universities and various societal actors, Valentina Mazzucato has been awarded an NWA-ORC grant for the project ‘CLIMARES: Climate Resilience in Diverse African Contexts: Co-creating Knowledge & Action Chains’. With a total of €6.75 million spread over a period of 6 years, the consortium will research how early action and adaptation can effectively build on local at-risk populations’ resilience needs and strategies and how their knowledge can best be included in large-scale climate modelling to better reflect their needs.
The purpose of the NWA-ORC programme is to encourage innovative, demand-driven research. The research is carried out by chain-wide and interdisciplinary consortia, in which researchers collaborate with relevant societal (public and/or private) partners and citizens.
About the project
People can prepare better for climate change if they know how weather patterns and climate change will impact their – often already precarious or threatened – livelihoods. Focusing on smallholders, fisherfolk, urban outdoor workers, pastoralists and displaced people in various African countries, Climares uses participatory digital and face to face research, co-created climate story lines and advocacy methods to ensure that weather and climate information becomes accurate and actionable. Knowledge∞Action chains that comprise the population groups, weather, climate and disaster actors, other stakeholders and global connections will form inclusive knowledge infrastructure to advance the resilience of vulnerable populations.
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