Pan-African and transdisciplinary lens on the margins: Tackling the risks of extreme events (PALM-TREES)

About this project

According to the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, over 20 million people are displaced annually and many more are affected by floods, drought and heatwaves. Such extreme events are followed by negative impacts on mental health and well-being and overlap with internal conflict, security risks, and multiple forms of vulnerability. Limited access to resources, aid and services during and after climate shocks in sub-Saharan African is pushing communities to the margins of society and limiting their ability to adapt. This project addresses stakeholder and community needs across six countries to identify the consequences of extreme events as experienced by marginalized people. The project will extend beyond the characterization and modelling of physical anomalies (which consider extreme events in terms of their occurrence, intensity and frequency) to examining when and why these events are considered “extreme” by the communities and how they contribute to vulnerability. This knowledge will be integrated into the work of the local stakeholders in charge of preparedness and adaptation plans and into their inclusive design and implementation. The hypothesis is that more inclusive implementation of these plans will contribute to reducing inequalities rather than perpetrating them. Research will be on flooding in Kitui and Turkana counties in Kenya; the dynamics of flooding and gender-based violence (and responses) in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa; the impact of f…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Cameroon

Sectors

Disaster Risk Reduction

Focus

Gender equality · Main focusEnvironment · Main focusClimate adaptation · Main focus

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110002-004.

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