Latest Discussions
BRACED holds regular online discussion forums to promote learning and the spread of ideas about effective resilience to climate extremes and disasters. All webinars and discussion forums are on the record, and may be cited in other materials.
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Archive Learning in Consortia: 10 Tips for innovative meetings
Join us for this webinar to hear about 10 tips to make your virtual or face-to- face meetings more innovative. These tips will include aspects of session design and share a couple of practical ideas to engage participants and stimulate innovative dialogue. Speakers: Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red ...
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Archive Cities and Heatwaves
This webinar will focus on cities and heatwaves and include the following speakers; Roop Singh from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Hunter Jones from the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) and Kate Strachan from Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) in Africa to discuss...
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Archive Linking financial services and social protection for resilience
Climate-related shocks and stresses threaten people and communities around the world, compounding existing poverty and vulnerabilities and undermining long- term development. Facilitating the access to, and use of, well-designed financial services such as savings, loans and insurance has shown ...
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Archive Experiences in resilience: how do we scale up and transform systems?
June 4, 2019, 2-3 PM GMT+1 (UK) / This webinar, co-hosted by BRACED and the Oxfam Resilience Hub will introduce the "Resilience Exchange" full of practitioners' experience. It will then share practical experiences and lessons and engaging with governments and regional institutions on Climate ...
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Archive The limits to climate adaptation
April 10th, 2019, 11 am GMT time / This debate will focus on the limits to adapting to a changing climate, with a particular focus on the Sahel and East Africa. What happens when climate adaptation interventions fail, or when the challenge of climate change is simply unsurmountable? Our panelists ...
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Archive Internal Webinar: Reporting to understand results in year 4
Internal BRACED Webinar, for more information reach out to Lucy Faulkner
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Archive Resilience M&E - Lessons from Mali
Tuesday 29 January, 1-2 PM GMT / BRACED project WYL in Mali shares useful lessons the consortia implementing the project have learnt about designing and implementing an effective M&E system using ICT for development tools. Join to learn more!
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Archive Access to markets in the Sahel
22 January, 10.30 - 12.00 GMT / French Webinar: ENDA Energy and ODI co-organise a webinar on: access to markets in fragile or conflict-affected areas in the Sahel. They will share lessons on the development of value chains for milk and dairy products. Join this webinar to learn more! Note: it will ...
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Archive COP24 Reflection
Wednesday, December 19, 1-2 pm GMT / COP24 is now finished, but what do the outcomes mean for the future of climate resilience? Our experts will shed a light! Join this webinar and ask your questions, or learn from others. Panel: -Christina Chan: Director, Climate Resilience Practice at the World ...
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Archive Learning in consortia - Navigating the challenges
Nov 27, 1PM GMT / Working in the complex context of climate change and resilience often requires diverse organisations and individuals collaborating across disciplines, timezones, and geographical and cultural boundaries. Over the past year, a number of consortia and programmes working in the ...
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Archive Building resilience amid conflict in the Western African Sahel
Nov. 19, 4:30 pm UK time / This Twitter debate will focus on the obstacles actors face when rolling out projects that aim to boost resilience to climate extremes and disaster in the conflict areas covered by the G5 Sahel joint force - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. Our panelists ...
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Archive Key Findings from IPCC's Special Report on 1.5 Degrees
Nov. 14, 1 pm UK time / The Special Report on 1.5 Degrees released by the IPCC in October outlines pathways to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. It also warns of the dangers associated with warming of 1.5 degrees and beyond including impacts to human health, natural and environmental systems, urban ...
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Archive Communicating seasonal forecasts: Challenges and solutions
August 23, 2pm UK time / This webinar will incorporate a number of different viewpoints on how to communicate forecast information drawing on both a review of the current literature, as well as experience working with communicating forecast information. We will note major obstacles - ranging from ...
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Archive How does gender stand in the way of adapting to climate change?
July 17, 2pm UK time / This online debate will look at how gender-based inequalities can contribute to the disproportionate exposure of women and girls to the effects of climate change. This dynamic is often hard to track and evidence. Our panelists include Virginie Le Masson, research associate at ...
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Archive How do you tackle climate change in conflict-torn countries?
March 21, 2pm UK time / This online debate will discuss the extent to which climate change and conflict feed off each other, and how countries and communities can build resilience to shocks in conflict settings. Our panel of experts includes Janani Vivekananda, senior project manager at adelphi; ...
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Archive Can we scale up early action through social protection?
March 5, 2018 at 12.00 - 13.00 GMT / Acting early, even before a shock has happened, is essential to reduce the impacts of disasters on vulnerable populations and increase the cost effectiveness of support. Can social protection programs enable early action at scale? This webinar will share ...
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Archive Exploring use and production of climate information in sub-Saharan ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 2.30-3.30pm GMT / This webinar will discuss what we know and don't know about the users of climate information services and their needs; and what role NGOs can play in the production, communication and uptake of that information.
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Archive From games to forum theatre: innovative ways of reaching people
February 27, 11am-1pm UK time /This discussion will share tips on innovative ways of reaching communities and conveying messages. The first hour (11-12) will be in English, followed by the same discussion in French (12-1).
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Archive Social media: what works?
December 12, 11am-1pm UK time /This discussion will share tips on how to use social media to promote your content and reach your audience. The first hour (11-12) will be in English, followed by the same discussion in French (12-1).
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Archive Lessons from the 2016-17 La Niña-linked drought in Kenya and Ethiopia
Thursday, November 30, 2017 1-2pm GMT / We interviewed humanitarian and development practitioners, donors, forecasters and other actors about the forecasts they received prior to the 2016-17 drought in East Africa, and actions taken to prepare for and anticipate the worst impacts. In this webinar,...
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Archive Shaping the global Climate Action Agenda on Resilience - what's next ...
Tuesday, November 28, 12-1 pm GMT / COP23 is now finished, but what do the outcomes mean for the global Climate Action Agenda on Resilience? Our experts Maarten van Aalst (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre) and Saleemul Huq (IIED) will shed a light! Join this webinar and ask your questions, or ...
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Archive Mobile phones successfully support farmers with weather and climate ...
November 16, 1-2 PM GMT / RIC4REC has innovated to benefit Malian producers regarding increasing mobile phone adoption to provide weather and climate information to farmers. Mobile phones are useful for disseminating weather and climate forecasts among producers and enable decision-making on the ...
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Archive Taking climate information to reach remote and vulnerable communities:...
November 2, 1-2 PM GMT (4pm EAT) / This webinar presents experiences of the CIARE project under the DFID BRACED programme in down-scaled climate services to communities that are remote and vulnerable to extremes of weather in Ethiopia. It will briefly address the operating context, climate ...
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Archive High level panel: Getting ready for COP23
October 31, 11 AM - 12 PM GMT / Join this BRACED Webinar in preparation for COP 23. During this high level panel we will address a few key concerns: 1. What is at stake at COP23; 2. The relevance of 1.5 degrees and the power of the Least Developed Countries in the negotiations; 3. The role and ...
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Archive BRACED at COP - Internal Discussion
October 30, 1-2 PM GMT / Join this conversation between the Knowledge Manager and interested Implementing Partners to find out more about what KM is planning at COP23 and to hear what fellow Implementing Partners are planning are as well. The objective of this webinar will be for the KM and IPs to ...
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Archive Do financial services really build resilience?
October 17, 11.00-12.00 AM UTC / This webinar will discuss the role and value of financial services in building climate resilience. We will also explore what other factors are needed to be integrated with financial services in building resilience among communities. Come and learn from the Mercy ...
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Archive Niger’s farmers and herders share weather and technical advice for ...
! Please note: date has changed. 12 October, 11h00 - 12h00 UTC / This French webinar will look at agricultural and pastoral planning in Niger, based on seasonal climate forecasts. We explore how this is made more effective when it is accompanied by a participatory process between the meteorological ...
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Archive How can we prepare for worsening floods?
September 27, 11 am UK time / This online debate will discuss how different communities around the world were affected by worsening floods, how they coped – for example through climate information or index-based insurance – and how they could better prepare for future flooding. Our panel of ...
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Archive Conservation Agriculture 'brushed up' - Chad and Sudan
September 26, 12.00 - 13.00 BST / The Building Resilience in Chad and Sudan (BRICS) project is introducing Conservation Agriculture as one of the technologies to strengthen people’s capacities to adapt to and absorb climate change. For example, mulching has been replaced by other techniques such as ...
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Archive Titles that sing, introductions that charm
September 12, 11 am-1 pm UK time /Titles that sing, introductions that charm: this discussion will share a few pointers on how to make people want to read what you write. The first hour (11-12) will be in English, followed by the same discussion in French (12-1).
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Archive Demystifying the Global Agenda into Practical Action: BRACED ...
September 6, 10.00-11.00 AM BST / Join this interesting panel discussion on "Demystifying the global resilience agenda", with experiences from BRACED in Myanmar and Nepal - that show practical action.
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Archive Capture public imagination: Flashmobs to build resilience
August 24, 12.00-1.00 PM UK time (GMT+1) -Join Aditi Kapoor, Climate Resilience Advisor at the Climate Centre and IFRC, and Rebeka Ryvola, Technical Advisor at the Climate Centre, to learn about their experience creating flashmobs for resilience in India and how they may be replicated for other ...
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Archive What have we learned from the East African drought?
July 18, 11 am BST / This online debate will discuss how different communities in East Africa were affected by drought, how they coped – for example through climate information or index-based insurance – and how effective the response from the international community has been. Our panel of experts ...
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Archive Learning in Consortia
June 8, 12.00-1.00 PM UTC / This webinar will support the author team in formulating the Learning in Consortia publication, and aims to explore the opportunities and challenges encountered when working in consortia.
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Archive Communicating Climate Information: Lessons from the Field
May 25, 12.00-1.00 PM GMT / This webinar will explore effective communication of climate information - which is critical to ensuring that decision makers at all levels understand and are able to act upon such information. We will draw on literature as well as practical experience from BBC Media ...
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Archive How to tell a compelling story about your project
April 25, 11.30-12.30 GMT /Have a great story to tell about your project but not sure where to start? This discussion will share a few pointers. The first hour (11.30-12.30) will be in English, followed by the same discussion in French (12.30-1.30).
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Archive How to speak about BRACED in the media
February 2, 11.30-12.30 GMT / What's the best way to pitch stories to the media? And how should you present BRACED at an event or during an interview? This discussion will offer a range of tips. The first hour (11.30-12.30) will be in English, followed by the same discussion in French (12.30-1.30).
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Archive El Nino preparedness, forecast and decisions in Africa
26 January, 2-3 PM GMT / The 2015/16 El Nino attracted global and local attention in Africa and the rest of the world. We take you through the story showing how humanitarian organizations, donors, development partners and governments used forecast information to take early action in five countries ...
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Archive Raising Risk Awareness through Extreme Event Attribution
19 December, 1-2 PM GMT / The Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) initiative uses the latest science to assess whether climate change has contributed to extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and heatwaves in several countries across East Africa and South Asia. We will explore how climate ...
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Archive Sahel emergencies: flexible funding and contingency planning
13 December, 11.30-12.30 GMT / In a world of increasing risk and instability, humanitarian and development actors must adapt to work more closely. This webinar will explore the impact of crisis modifier interventions and flexible funding in Sahel emergencies. It will draw on experiences of one the ...
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Archive La Niña and East African climate impacts
17 November, 12-1 pm GMT / This webinar will assess the potential impacts of La Niña in East Africa and links to policy. It will include a discussion of the impacts to date in East African countries, as well as expectations based on the current seasonal forecasts. In addition, there will be a ...
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Archive From shock response to long-term resilience– What is the role of ...
18 October, 1 - 2.30 PM UK time (GMT+1) / Social protection is increasingly recognised as an important mechanism for responding to shocks, including climate-related ones. Understanding how delivery and financing mechanisms can be best designed and implemented to allow effective disaster response is ...
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Archive Disasters hurt more women than men. What’s the solution?
10 October, 2PM UK time (GMT+1) / What should governments, aid agencies and businesses do differently to protect lives and put women and girls at the core of disaster risk reduction? Join our panel of experts for a debate ahead of the International Day for Disaster Reduction
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Archive Experiential Learning in the Climate Change Adaptation Context
16 September, 1PM UK time (GMT+1) / This webinar explores experiential learning methodologies and approaches that support adaptation processes. This could range from methods of interactive facilitation to serious games allowing participants to explore and experience different aspects of adaptation. ...
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Archive Innovative methods for communicating climate information
2 August, 13:00 UK time (GMT+1) / How can we help people and organizations understand the meaning, value and limitations of forecasts about future climate and weather conditions? In this webinar we will learn about innovative, game-enabled approaches that are helping people and organizations ...
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Archive Psychological Resilience - latest insights
28 July, 15:00 UK time (GMT+1) / This webinar will explore the implications of psychological resilience for international development, exploring what types of resources, relationships, and coping skills are important for thriving in the face of shocks and stresses.
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Archive A journalist's toolkit
12 July, 11:30 UK time (GMT+1) / Snappy headlines, compelling interviews, reliable sources...this discussion will offer tips on how to find and write the best stories.
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Archive Autonomous innovation for development and resilience
5 July, 14:30 UK time (GMT+1) / Communities that are most vulnerable to the impacts of shocks and stresses often lack the resources needed for reducing risk and enhancing resilience. Approaches to innovation that are inclusive, bottom-up and frugal or draw on the philosophy of jugaad (a Hindi term ...
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Archive Webinar: Climate resilience in value chains - lessons learned
21 June, 11:30 UK time (GMT+1) / A joint Webinar by four of the world’s leading resilience programmes/organisations*: There is growing need to manage climate risk in development policies and programmes. This webinar will explore how recent value chain analyses integrate climate risks. Based on ...
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Archive Webinar: Going forwards in circles – adaptive management for complex ...
14 June, 11:30 UK time (GMT+1) / Development is increasingly dealing with complex problems such as climate change and conflict. Blueprint project plans don’t tend to work in such situations – solutions are more like to emerge through a flexible and adaptive approaches, involving repeated cycles of ...
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Archive Webinar: Realities of El Nino driven drought in Ethiopia and dilemmas ...
31 May, 11:30 UK time (GMT+1) Join this IP led webinar on how household’s capacity to absorb the impacts the 2015 drought in BRACED districts of Ethiopia coupled with growing unpredictability of rainfall conditions have perplexed their adaptation decisions. It highlights one of the fast expanding ...
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