Webinar
Land Rights and Climate Resilience
Land use rights are key to how individuals and societies may shape their livelihoods as well as adapt to climate change. The more people are dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods, the more this is the case. The webinar presents the EBA study: ‘Land Tenure and Climate Resilience: Household Level Evidence from Kenya’. It investigates how differences in land tenure systems, strength of land rights and perceived tenure security influence what strategies people chose to tackle climate change. Do people opt for adaptive, political or coercive strategies when seeking improved resilience?
Seminar
Conflict, Democracy, and Peace: Exploring What Works
In the quest for peace and the struggle for democracy, recent research might offer new insights. At this seminar, we will launch a new EBA-report “What Are They Fighting For? An Issue-based Approach to the Analysis and Resolution of Civil War” and also introduce three new dissertations in peace and conflict research. By bringing these themes together, we’ll look at what they can teach us about practical paths toward lasting peace.
Report
Land Tenure and Climate Resilience: Household Level Evidence from Kenya
How does land ownership affect the strategies people use to manage climate-related threats? Kathleen Klaus and Emma Elfversson examines how various dimensions of land ownership – ownership systems, the strength and scope of formal rights, and individuals' perceived security of ownership – influence climate adaptation, collective organizing, or potentially violent strategies to defend or reclaim land.
Working paper
What is most effective – core funding or earmarked funding?
Global challenges and tightened aid spending reinforce the importance of effective development financing. EBA and the German Institute for Development Evaluation, DEval have compiled what we know about the effectiveness of core funding and earmarked funding to multilateral organisations. The review indicates that core funding is more effective than earmarked funding, as it gives greater autonomy and enables strategic and long-term planning. But there are still some evidence gaps.
