Climatelinks 2024 Year in Review: Blogs You May Have Missed

Climatelinks’ blogs synthesize knowledge, tools, lessons learned, and best practices that are relevant for climate change and development practitioners. Here are a few insightful blogs you may have missed in 2024:

Empowering Jordan’s Youth for Water Conservation and Efficiency

USAID/Jordan seeks to increase the meaningful participation of the country’s youth aged 10-29 within their communities and the national economy, and one potential area for engagement is water conservation. The USAID Water Efficiency and Conservation (WEC) Activity is empowering young leaders to use their innovative solutions and dedication to tackle the challenge of water scarcity. By working with the Jordanian Association for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, WEC aims to save at least 300,000 cubic meters of water annually.

Mobilizing Climate Finance to Strengthen Trade and Investment on the African Continent

The Prosper Africa-USAID partnership is a national security initiative that aims to increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and African countries. It recognizes the potential of climate finance and helps African governments, businesses, and smallholder farmers transition to sustainable, productive, and profitable approaches. In addition, the partnership seeks to identify new opportunities for private-sector partners to play a landmark role in green initiatives.

Measuring Adaptation: Increasingly Necessary but Not Always Easy

Climate adaptation encompasses many approaches, from building physical structures to behavior-change investments such as altering the time of planting a crop. With the increasing flows of adaptation finance comes a greater need to track how adaptation activities support climate resilience to ensure financing is effective. Although there is no “one size fits all” approach to measuring adaptation, some underlying principles can help determine the most appropriate metric.

USAID’s YALI Alumni are Using Technology to Fight Climate Change

The joint USAID and U.S. Department of State Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) supports African leadership and entrepreneurship skills development. A number of YALI members are creating innovations that pave the way for the utilization and development of new technologies designed to mitigate the negative impacts of a changing climate. To foster and encourage more climate- and tech-related leaders within the YALI alumni group, a three-week training program included masterclasses led by climate and environment industry experts.

Grassroots Project Jumpstarts Conservation Efforts in Mexican Countryside

In El Carrizal, Queretaro, Mexico, a Peace Corps Small Project Assistance grant funded by USAID/Mexico was used to construct rainwater collection cisterns, install solar hot water heaters, build dry composting toilets, and create numerous educational ecotourism signs. The project seeks to employ various eco-techniques and technologies to advance environmentally conscious best practices. It also emphasizes ecotourism as a sustainable development concept to boost the local economy and preserve the wilderness conservation area.

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