Climate resilient development pathways need to be responsive to the challenges posed by rapid urbanisation. Across Africa and Asia, CLARE projects are working with urban communities to co-create inclusive strategies to reduce vulnerability and shape a resilient future.  

A recently updated thematic brief spotlights how CLARE projects are helping build urban climate resilience. The brief provides an overview of how these projects are using inclusive, co-creative methods to understand the root causes of urban informality and intersectional vulnerability, as well as the dynamics of rural-urban transitions. 

The updated thematic brief features projects from across the CLARE research and capacity strengthening portfolio, including: 

• CLAPs – Climate Change Local Adaptation Pathways 
• CLARE-ASEAN – Supporting Socially Inclusive Climate Adaptation & Resilience in ASEAN 
• CLARITY – Climate adaptation and resilience in tropical drylands 
• INACCT Resilience – Designing Inclusive African Coastal City Resilience 
• Inclusive SRCities – Enhancing inclusive Global South participation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Climate Change and Cities 
• PALM-TREEs – Pan-African and transdisciplinary lens on the margins: Tackling the risks of extreme events 
• REPRESA – Resilience and preparedness to tropical cyclones across Southern Africa 
• RURBANISE – Resilience of informal communities in rapid urbanization 
• SIRA – Enhancing local capacities in socially inclusive resilience in Asia 
• SUCCESS – Successful intervention pathways for migration as adaptation 
• Tuwe Pamoja – Let’s be together for equitable urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation 
• Urban TRACS – Transformative research for adaptation to climate change in informal settlements 

Discover how these projects are producing gender equitable and socially inclusive research to develop adaptation solutions that support the most vulnerable in the full thematic brief.