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Resilient Urban Futures: Adapting Livelihoods to Climate Change
East African cities face growing climate-related challenges, exacerbated by rapid urbanisation. Issues such as rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, droughts, and flooding put significant pressure on infrastructure, livelihoods, and social well-being. The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus East Africa Research Network (LEARN) convened a policy dialogue involving policymakers, academics, researchers, and community leaders from Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Kenya to explore strategies…
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Scaling up local actions shaping climate trajectories in East African Cities
Climate change in East Africa has far-reaching effects that manifest both in large-scale disruptions and in smaller, daily inconveniences that often go unnoticed. Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) emphasises the importance of local people having control over the adaptation process, leveraging their knowledge and experiences to manage climate risks in ways that are embedded in their…
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Cross-City Dialogue in Kampala: Charting Resilient Futures for East African Cities
On September 4th and 5th, the Urban Action Lab at Makerere University, in collaboration with the LEARN network, hosted a Cross-City Dialogue in Kampala, Uganda. The event, titled “Resilient Urban Futures: Adapting Livelihoods to Climate Change,” brought together diverse stakeholders from across East Africa to address the pressing challenges of urban resilience in a region…
