News from CLARE: Celebrating and sustaining our impact
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Highlights from the CLARE Programme Newsletter – October 2026
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Over the last quarter, we’ve had the opportunity to take stock of many examples of real-world impact from across the CLARE programme. Across Africa and the Asia-Pacific, CLARE research is driving inclusive and sustainable climate resilience for the most vulnerable.
Our latest reporting period has given us the numbers to support that claim: to date, CLARE work has enabled over 95 Southern-led climate solutions. Some of these solutions are brought to life through the Stories of Change series. From scaling community-based early warning systems to informing climate displacement planning across a coalition of countries, these stories highlight the diversity of work being undertaken across the CLARE portfolio, connected by the common thread of driving climate resilience across the Global South. Follow our social channels to stay up to date with the Stories of Change, and visit the impact section of our website for the full series.
In September, the global CLARE community had the opportunity to come together at CLARExchange 2026, which was organized around the theme “Celebrating and sustaining our impact”. CLARExchange 2026 was more than an opportunity to present research and project results — it created space to reflect on CLARE’s collective contributions and how their impact can continue beyond individual projects..
The CLARE public webinar series has provided more opportunities to highlight examples of impact and put vital insights from CLARE projects into the hands of knowledge users. Running until November, the webinars are an opportunity to discover learnings from across the CLARE community.
The momentum we gathered during this quarter will continue through to the end of the year, which will see major milestones such as COP31 in Türkiye. Keep an eye on your inbox, as we’ll be sharing a special edition of this newsletter to capture all the CLARE activity planned for COP31.
Programme news
Highlights from CLARExchange 2026
From 22 to 25 September, members of the global CLARE community came together for CLARExchange 2026 in Arusha, Tanzania.
Info Brief: Building Climate-Resilient Cities
Explore how CLARE research supports urban communities to reduce vulnerability to climate change and co-create a resilient future.
Catch up on the CLARE webinar series
Access the recordings of all the webinars hosted by CLARE over the past few months, including the launch of the CLARE-Climate Visuals partnership.
CLARE photo series: Adaptation research and action in practice
CLARE, in partnership with Climate Visuals, has launched a collection of over 200 images highlighting how projects are leading research for climate adaptation that builds resilience. The images are now available for free non-profit, editorial and educational use. Read more here.
“The images tell the story of what climate adaptation and resilience can look like in practice and why it’s urgently needed,” says Climate Visuals.
Research updates
FOrecasts to Local Action (FOLA)
A new info brief from PASSAGE breaks down the FOLA approach, which is designed to make anticipatory action systems more localized, making them more effective in turn.
Capacity Strengthening in CLARE: What Learners Valued
A blog post from the CLARE Capacity Strengthening (CS) Hub introduces the Capacity Rug, a reflection tool for learners to look back at their own capacity strengthening journey.
Reimagining Climate Tools from the Ground Up
RURBANISE shares how the project is using co-design, technical literacy, and hands-on capacity building to build community understanding of climate technology.
Moving Towards Transformational Adaptation
This webinar explored how CLARE research is enabling and supporting transformational adaptation across the Global South. Drawing on experiences from Africa and Asia, the discussion reflected on how transdisciplinary, co-produced research can help create pathways towards transformational adaptation.
Held as part of the CLARE public webinar series, this session created a practical and reflective space for exchange, featuring perspectives from the Capacity Strengthening (CS) Hub, Tuwe Pamoja, ClimateREEFS, WOSFER, Benin Health, RURBANISE, and BASIN.