The Nairobi Risk Hub on Thursday 16th of July 2020 participated in a workshop on the City Resilience Action Plan (CityRAP) tool that was facilitated by the UN-Habitat. The workshop which is part of the Nairobi Risk Hub and UNHabitat…
Authors: Peter Odhengo, Joanes Atela, Paul Steele, Victor Orindi and Fiona Imbali Climate Finance (CF) is critical to Kenya’s full realization of the policy goals as set out in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the 2015 Paris Agreement and the…
Authors: Avis, W. & Khaemba, W. (2018). Air pollution is a global environmental health threat contributing to an estimated three – seven million deaths per year worldwide. The effects of air pollution on human health are well documented in a range…
Climate Finance is critical to Kenya’s full realisation of the policy goals as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2015 Paris Agreement and the African Union Agenda 2063. For developing countries, such as Kenya, where impacts of…
Farmers’ Agency and Experiences of Agricultural Change in Rural Kenya: Insights from Exploratory Fieldwork, STEPS Working Paper 102, Brighton: STEPS Centre. Authors: Atela, J., Tonui, C. and Glover, D. (2018) Using novel agricultural technologies to boost farm productivity in the…
Authors: Duguma, LA, Atela JA. , A. N. Ayana, D. Alemagi, M. Mpanda, M. Nyago, P. A. Minang, J. M. Nzyoka, D. Foundjem-Tita and C. Ngo Ntamag-Ndjebet. 2018. A new journal article published under the Ecology and Society is up!…
Authors: Joanes Atela and the Global Consortium team (STEPS Centre). A new working paper on sustainability sets out a new threefold framework for achieving transformative change under the Sustainable Development Goals. These include structural changes, systemic changes and developing an…
Authors: Joanes Atela, Kate Elizabeth Gannon, and Florence Crick This paper looks into ways in which female-led enterprises can be made more resilient to climate change while in turn contributing to household and societal adaptation. Overally the paper argues that women-led…
Authors: Andrew Newsham, Sarah Kohnstamm, Lars Otto Naess and Joanes Atela Climate change is likely to alter the environmental parameters which affect where agricultural commercialisation activity can happen in sub-Saharan Africa, what can be grown and how well it will…
Authors: Peter Newell ;Charles Tonui and Olivia Taylor Understanding how, why, and whether the trade-offs and tensions around simultaneous implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals are resolved both sustainably and equitably requires an appreciation of power relations across multiple scales…