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SWAAMI (South West Asian Aerosol Monsoon Interactions) The SWAAMI project aims to combine measurements of the properties of aerosols across northern India and the Bay of Bengal during the
pre-monsoon season in unprecedented detail, with long term measurements from ground-based networks and data from previous
intensive campaigns, in order to challenge model representations of aerosols over India and their effects on the monsoon. This project is set to have impact across a variety of stakeholders such as policymakers (in evidence for potential climate change mitigation factors), operational weather forecasting centres (in precipitation prediction) and the general public in India via outreach activities. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Framing Debates about Poverty Reduction and Ecosystem Services ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Adaptive governance of mountain ecosystem services for poverty alleviation enabled by environmental virtual observatories (MOUNTAIN-EVO) ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Sources, impacts and solutions for plastics in South East Asia coastal environments This project has a widely cross-disciplinary team and will tackle the plastic pollution crisis in coastal environments of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand with a new angle. The project will deploy advanced, state-of-the art techniques to quantify the impact of different plastic debris - dominated by smaller abundant microplastic (MP) particles - at different trophic levels from the complex microbial communities inhabiting the surface of MPs, to bivalves and fish. The project will identify new microbial degraders, key enzymes involved in biodegradation pathways and understand how sunlight can enhance the (bio)degradability of recalcitrant polymers. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
CongoPeat: Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Landslide Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Preparedness and Early Warning in South Asia: Integrating Meteorology, Landscape and Society LANDSLIP will develop new insights into landslide risk within the Indian Himalayas and Western Ghats. Operating in partnership with decision makers, in public and private sectors, academics and non-for-profit agencies the overarching aim is to contribute to better landslide risk assessment and early warning, in a multi-hazard framework in India, aiming to increase resilience and reduce loss. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
AMMA-2050 NEC05274 AMMA-2050 is a collaborative project between scientists and policy makers in West Africa and Europe that will increase understanding of the regional climate in West Africa, and how it will change, as well as apply that knowledge to practical development questions. AMMA-2050 will use new computer simulations alongside conventional climate models and historical observations, to understand why the statistics of key climate extremes are changing, and what this tells us about climate and its extremes in future decades. The outputs from the climate models will be used to examine impacts on key sectors in West African society, notably water and agriculture. The key beneficiaries are in Senegal, where sustainable agricultural adaptation strategies will be identified along with the policy frameworks to support those options, and in Burkina Faso where the project will examine how climate changes are likely to affect flooding in the rapidly growing city of Ouagadougou. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (INCOMPASS) This programme aims to improve understanding and prediction of the South Asian monsoon variability on all timescales. Accurate monsoon prediction is a vital societal challenge with over 1 billion people and their agriculture impacted by the monsoon rains. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
GroFutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa The programme focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners in SSA to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
FATHUM: Forecasts for AnTicipatory HUManitarian action FATHUM aims to undertake interdisciplinary research which will provide the needed evidence and direction to enable the successful implementation and scale-up of “Forecast-based Financing” locally, nationally and internationally, enhancing preparedness and resilience to disasters. The research will build on pilot projects conducted in highly flood-prone districts in Uganda and Mozambique, by bringing together a group of interdisciplinary researchers to analyse and research how a new type of Forecast-based Financing system can quickly respond to forecasts of extreme events, while still contributing to long-term resilience goals and reducing the need for disaster response. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
BoBBLE: Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment This programme aims to improve understanding and prediction of the South Asian monsoon variability on all timescales. Accurate monsoon prediction is a vital societal challenge with over 1 billion people and their agriculture impacted by the monsoon rains. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
AMMA-2050 NEC05274 Research to better understand climate variability and change across subSaharan Africa. Focused on advancing scientific knowledge and better integration into decision making for improved climate risk management and protection of lives and livelihoods. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
TREMOR: Mechanisms and consequences of increasing TREe MORtality in Amazonian rainforests Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Towards Forecast-based Preparedness Action (ForPAc): Probabilistic forecast information for defensible preparedness decision-making and action The programme has four focuses: disaster risk, subseasonal to seasonal forecasting, disaster risk monitoring, and the integration of these into practical decision making. The programme is targeting countries across subSaharan Africa and south Asia. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
National-scale Impact Based Forecasting of Flood Risk in Uganda (NIMFRU) Research grant – improving targeting and communication of flood warning and response, and scaling this out across Uganda to build resilience to flood risk. Benefitting local communities in Katakwi district through improved flood impact and agricultural information transmitted through Farmer AgriMet Village Clinics and local radio forums. SDGs: 2, 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
ALTER - Alternative Carbon Investments in Ecosystems for Poverty Alleviation ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
SWAAMI (South West Asian Aerosol Monsoon Interactions) This programme aims to improve understanding and prediction of the South Asian monsoon variability on all timescales. Accurate monsoon prediction is a vital societal challenge with over 1 billion people and their agriculture impacted by the monsoon rains. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Biodiversity, ecosystem functions and policy across a tropical forest modification gradient Uncertainty in the tropical biosphere response to global change is a major constraint on predicting the climate of the end of this century and therefore in assessing threshold values of greenhouse gas emissions that may avoid dangerous climate change. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
South East Asia MArine Plastics (SEAmap): Reduction, Control and Mitigation of Marine Plastic Pollution in the Philippines This project focuses on the Cebu Islands, home to the biggest marine protected area in the Philippines. Through the development of a Sources-Pathways-Receptor (SPR) modelling framework, this project will map the transport of marine plastic litter (MPL) from source to sink. The model will incorporate novel non-conservative terms to simulate transformation of the plastic waste as it travels through the system, incorporating, among other processes, changes due to exposure to UV light and mechanical degradation due to wave action. This project will focus on the impacts of the plastic waste to mangroves - an unknown but potentially important filter in the plastic cycle.  This project will determine the role of mangroves in the microplastic (plastics less than 5 mm) cycle, since mangroves could, in fact, act to further disperse plastic as even smaller particles over longer timescales. By accurately resolving the content and type of MPL in space and time, the impact to receptors (services, industry and environment) will be accurately assessed: both physically (mortality and impact to ecosystem function) but also economically (to industries such as fisheries, aquaculture and tourism). Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
ACES: Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican Woodlands ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
CESEA - Coastal Ecosystem Services in East Africa ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
FATHUM: Forecasts for AnTicipatory HUManitarian action The programme has four focuses: disaster risk, subseasonal to seasonal forecasting, disaster risk monitoring, and the integration of these into practical decision making. The programme is targeting countries across subSaharan Africa and south Asia. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the economic and social costs of natural hazards. This interdisciplinary programme aims to reduce risk in these earthquake-prone and volcanic regions by increasing resilience to high impact events. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
IMPALA: Improving Model Processes for African cLimAte Research to better understand climate variability and change across subSaharan Africa. Focused on advancing scientific knowledge and better integration into decision making for improved climate risk management and protection of lives and livelihoods. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Compound flooding from tropical cyclone-induced sea surge and precipitation in Sri Lanka (C-FLOOD) Research grant – developing a new generation of compound flood hazard maps for Sri Lanka, based upon stateoftheart computer modelling that will consider all the storm surge components and the rainfall effect. Benefitting coastal communities in Sri Lanka through improved preparedness and improved evacuation strategies. SDGs: 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Why should ecosystem services be used for poverty alleviation? Establishing the ethical foundations of ESPA. (Short title: WhyESPA) ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
GroFutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa The programme focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners in SSA to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
A hidden crisis: unravelling current failures for future success in rural groundwater supply The programme focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners in SSA to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in degraded and recovering Amazonian and Atlantic forests Uncertainty in the tropical biosphere response to global change is a major constraint on predicting the climate of the end of this century and therefore in assessing threshold values of greenhouse gas emissions that may avoid dangerous climate change. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Uncertainty reduction in Models For Understanding deveLopment Applications (UMFULA) UMFULA plans to benefit a number of stakeholders, including communities in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa that are vulnerable to climate related risks, or reliant on infrastructure/resources that may be affected by climate change in the next 40 years. This will be done via improved engagement and co-production of knowledge, and stakeholder-driven deliberative processes with national and local government as well as private sectors, so they are enabled drive a process of improved use of climate services in the decision-making processes. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
The potential of seasonal-to-decadal-scale inter-regional linkages to advance climate predictions (InterDec) Climate extremes have a huge impact on water resources for agriculture, industry and fresh water supply in developing countries. Climate Services aim to provide more reliable climate information over months/decades relevant for local and regional users. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
BOULDER: Accounting for BOUlders in Landslide-flood Disaster Evaluation and Resilience Research grant – enhancing understanding of boulder production on hillslopes and transport in rivers in order to account for boulders in landslide and flood disaster evaluation and resilience in the Upper Bhote Koshi (UBK) basin, Nepal. Benefiting stakeholders in the UBK catchment, particularly communities reliant on hydropower-generated electricity. SDGs: 7, 11. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas (STREVA) Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the economic and social costs of natural hazards. This interdisciplinary programme aims to reduce risk in these earthquake-prone and volcanic regions by increasing resilience to high impact events. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Eco-system services and multi-dimensional poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Co-producing demand-led evidence syntheses to inform policy-making ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Better understanding of Interregional Teleconnections for prediction in the Monsoon and Poles Climate extremes have a huge impact on water resources for agriculture, industry and fresh water supply in developing countries. Climate Services aim to provide more reliable climate information over months/decades relevant for local and regional users. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Carbon Storage in Amazonian Peatlands: Distribution and Dynamics This project aims to make a step change in the precision and accuracy of our knowledge of tropical peat distribution and to develop a capacity for predicting and monitoring future changes to tropical peatland carbon cycles. Several stakeholders in Peru will benefit, including government, NGOs and carbon investment markets, as well as communities living in around tropical peatlands. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
BGS NC ODA 2023-26 British Geological Survey NC ODA spend Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
HyCRISTAL: Integrating Hydro-Climate Science into Policy Decisions for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure and Livelihoods in East Africa HyCRISTAL aims to quantify current uncertainties in projections of water availability in East Africa (Uganda & Rwanda) under future climate change.  Working with policy makers, inter-disciplinary research (hydrology, economics, engineering, social science, ecology and decision-making) will quantify risks for rural & urban livelihoods, quantify climate impacts and provide the necessary tools to use climate information for decision making. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Citizen science for landslide risk reduction and disaster resilience building in mountain regions The programme has four focuses: disaster risk, subseasonal to seasonal forecasting, disaster risk monitoring, and the integration of these into practical decision making. The programme is targeting countries across subSaharan Africa and south Asia. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
EverDrill: Accessing the interior and bed of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier to forecast future mass loss Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Human-Modified Tropical Forest Programme Management Uncertainty in the tropical biosphere response to global change is a major constraint on predicting the climate of the end of this century and therefore in assessing threshold values of greenhouse gas emissions that may avoid dangerous climate change. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Rift volcanism: past, present and future The Rift Volcanism project aims to improve the understanding of Rift Volcanism through three linked, multi-disciplinary work packages based on the past (What has driven eruptions over geological timescales?), present (What controls the active magmatic system and volcanic unrest?) and future (What are the potential threats from future volcanic activity?). The research focuses on the Main Ethiopian Rift area, and will primarily benefit Ethiopia via building institutional capacity in country to increase monitoring and decision-making capabilities, and knowledge sharing via volcanic activity monitoring organisations. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Rift volcanism: past, present and future Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
IMPALA: Improving Model Processes for African cLimAte Research to better understand climate variability and change across sub-Saharan Africa. Focused on advancing scientific knowledge and better integration into decision making for improved climate risk management and protection of lives and livelihoods. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
An integrated data-model study of interactions between tropical monsoons and extra-tropical climate variability and extremes (INTEGRATE) Climate extremes have a huge impact on water resources for agriculture, industry and fresh water supply in developing countries. Climate Services aim to provide more reliable climate information over months/decades relevant for local and regional users. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Future Resilience for African CiTies And Lands (FRACTAL) Research to better understand climate variability and change across subSaharan Africa. Focused on advancing scientific knowledge and better integration into decision making for improved climate risk management and protection of lives and livelihoods. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.