Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA)
ACCRA is a consortium made up of Oxfam GB, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Save the Children Alliance, Care International and World Vision International and funded by DFID. ACCRA aims to increase governments' and development actors' use of evidence in designing and implementing both humanitarian and development interventions that increase poor and vulnerable communities' adaptive capacity.
The ACCRA project is being implemented in three countries: Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda. Oxfam is the lead agency in Ethiopia, Save the Children the lead in Mozambique and World Vision the lead in Uganda.
Why is ACCRA needed?
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report highlights the unequivocal evidence that the world’s climate system is warming. Profound impacts are already being felt by poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, where livelihoods based on agriculture and livestock are threatened by unpredictable seasons, rising temperatures, and increases in the frequency and severity of climate-related hazards.
Despite a consensus that governments and development partners need to work to improve the adaptive capacity of the most vulnerable people to climate change, there is a lack of evidence about what are the most effective interventions to promote adaptive capacity. And despite agreement that joint work across the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, social protection and livelihoods support is required to respond to these challenges, this consensus has not yet been reflected in the policy, practice or research priorities of governments and other development actors. Finally, the commitments of government and donors needs to be translated into action.
How we work
ACCRA has a strong commitment to working with government, and for this reason the consortium is fully operational in all 3 countries. We have an ACCRA national coordinator working alongside ACCRA members to build a strong relationship with and support the national government and work with local and national government at each step of the process. We're also working closely with existing civil society networks to ensure ACCRA contributes to their work, and with the wider development community through key platforms and meetings.
ACCRA research reports
ACCRA policy brief - Climate trends in Ethiopia
ACCRA policy brief - Climate trends in Uganda
ACCRA Policy brief - Development interventions in Ethiopia