The Adaptation Communications is a central requirement to keep track of the progress by Governments in implementing the Paris Agreement, since there is close interlinkage between the temperature goal...

Civil Society climate advocates from nine countries in the Southern Voices programme attended the COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco to share lessons and engage with colleagues and policy-makers to promote ...

Civil Society climate advocates from nine countries in the Southern Voices programme will attend the COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco to promote effective and equitable adaptation approaches.From Nepal, ...

“Advancing National Adaptation Plans post-Paris” was the headline for the NAP Expo organised in Bonn by the UNFCCC. The NAP Expo is an important learning event for governments and other stakeholde...

How can the Joint Principles for Adaptation best be used by partner-networks to improve adaptation policies? How can we strengthen ties and learning among partner networks? And how can SV-Adapt best i...

SV-Adapt welcome two new regional facilitators to our team: In Africa, Mr. Obed Koringo and in Latin America Mr. Alejandro Alemán. The new facilitators will carry on the work of strengthening the cap...

A new phase begins for Southern Voices with the start of 2016. During the first two years from 2014-15 the main focus was on developing and testing the Joint Principles for Adaptation (JPA) – as a ...

Almost all of Southern Voices partner networks engaged in the COP21 in Paris as observers – and a considerable number as advisors to their Government delegations. This enabled us to host a Southern...

At COP21 in Paris, partner networks attended from most countries where SV-Adapt is working. They were there engaging with their governments and other actors to promote an ambitious outcome of Paris...

The role and importance of NAPs in the negotiating text on the table for Paris is a cause for concern to Vositha Wijenayake – the Southern Voices regional facilitator for Asia.So she has prepared ...

The Joint Principles for Adaptation is used by SVA-partners in many ways - no doubt the tool has more blades that have not yet been unfolded. Since the Joint Principles for Adaptation were first prepa...

The JPA have been updated in a final version to be presented in Paris at the COP21, based on inputs by Southern Voices partner networks and the advisory board. Read about the updated JPA here.Compared...

The Southern Voices Advocacy Toolkits and Joint Principles for Adaptation have now been downloaded in more than 14.000 copies.Climate change is currently high on the agenda for civil society actors, e...

A new report from CARE International, Food Tank and CCAFS – Cultivating Equality: Delivering Just and Sustainable Food Systems in a Changing Climate – shows how inequality determines who eats firs...

Southern Voices climate networks are using the Joint Priniplces for Adaptation to promote the inclusion of adaptation issues in the INDC’s, - the national commitments each country will submit ahead ...