Climate Compatible Development Partnership (CCDP)
The Partnership:
The CCDP comprises a network of White Rose DTC and associated PhD studentships together with their academic supervisors and collaborators. The partnership aims to assess community-based payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes across a range of contexts in dryland Africa. It aims to enhance understanding of institutional aspects of new climate finance schemes in relation to the valuation of livelihoods, carbon and ecosystem services trade-offs and synergies. In doing so, it will provide best practice guidance for policy and practitioners.
White Rose Doctoral Training Centre
The White Rose University Consortium is a strategic partnership between Yorkshire’s leading research Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The DTC will facilitate collaboration across the social sciences at the three universities through the award of 48 postgraduate studentships per year with ambitious strategies to develop research and scholarship to make a major impact on global society. A set of interdisciplinary challenge areas have been identified which will be given strategic priority through dedicated pathways in the DTC collaboration.
Start Date:
October 2011
Newsletters:
Workshops and Training:
- Participatory Methods - Dec 2011: A workshop was held in Leeds on 9th December 2011 to train network members and associated PhD students on participatory methods in development research. The workshop was facilitated by Julia Leventon and Jen Dyer with help from Susie Sallu, Nico Favretto and Philip Antwi-Agyei. The workshop was designed to enable experience sharing by practicing participatory methods. The presentation used can be found here.
Conference Presentations and Proceedings
Professor Andy Dougill gave the key note presentation on "Research without Boundaries: Trans-disciplinary Reflections" at the York University Department of Environment's Postgraduate Conference on Friday 24th February. This was followed in the afternoon session by a presentation by Onyekuru N Anthony, a PhD Candidate within the Environment Department at the University of York, titled "Indigenous Adaptation to the Impact of Climate Change in West African Forests".
First year PhD candidate Elizabeth Harrison, from the University of Leeds, gave a presentation at the Sheffield International Development Network's (SIDNet) 3rd Annual Postgraduate Conference on March 16th 2012 on her PhD topic: harnessing triple wins for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and development in dryland Africa.
Third year PhD student Julia Latham, at the University of York, presented a paper titled "Official discourse vs local practice: Perceptions of forest management rules and regulations, and implications for REDD+" at the Beyond Carbon: Ensuring Justice and Equity in REDD+ Across Levels of Governance conference, held at St Anne's College, Oxford on the 23rd and 24th March 2012.
Contact:
For more information about the content of the Partnership, please contact Professor Andy Dougill (a.j.dougill(at)leeds.ac.uk). To be added to the newsletter mailing list, please contact Elizabeth Harrison (eeeh(at)leeds.ac.uk).
Join us on Facebook to stay up-to-date with all the latest news!