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Katharine Vincent is Director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions<\/path><\/svg><\/a>. Her work focuses on advancing equitable and effective climate adaptation, particularly through the co-production of useable knowledge to help society manage the risk posed by climate change. She has particular expertise in gender equality and social inclusion, climate services, disaster risk reduction and climate-resilient development in low- and middle-income countries, specialising in the global South, particularly southern and east Africa. Much of her work is undertaken through transdisciplinary collaborations, where she has a particular interest in developing and maintaining equitable partnership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katharine’s current projects span co-production and evaluation of climate services for disaster risk reduction, food systems transformation and political economy of adaptation decision making and behaviours through the Behavioural Adaptation for Water Security and Inclusion project<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a research perspective, Katharine has played a leading role in major international climate assessments, serving as a Lead Author for the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports, and as a Contributing Author to the Sixth Assessment Report and the Special Report on Climate Change and Land. From a technical consulting perspective, Katharine is committed to capacity building, learning and impact, supporting institutions and practitioners to design, finance, implement and monitor and evaluate equitable and effective adaptation. She has a strong track record in supporting countries to effectively access climate finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Katharine holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, where her doctoral research examined gendered vulnerability to climate change in South Africa. She also holds an MRes in Environmental Science Research (with distinction) from the University of East Anglia and a first-class BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Oxford. Her academic career has included postdoctoral research and teaching at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she maintains a visiting position with the Global Change Institute, as well as long-standing affiliations with universities in the UK and southern Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over more than two decades Katharine has worked with or consulted for a wide range of organisations, including the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), former USAID, International Development Research Centre, GIZ, World Bank, African Development Bank, various United Nations agencies (UNDP, UNEP, FAO), and many NGOs, including WWF, CARE International, Save the Children and Oxfam, many of which also involved direct partnership with national governments across Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Inclusive climate‑resilient development and transformation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Co-production of weather and climate information services<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Political economy of adaption decision making at multiple levels<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Adaptation measurement and tracking<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Climate–health, food systems and water–energy–food nexus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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