About us
Climate Change Resilient Equitable Healthy Cities in Africa
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Climate Change Resilient Equitable Healthy Cities in Africa
CLARITY-Africa aims to co-produce novel, transdisciplinary knowledge to enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to the health impacts of climate change in four African cities — Accra and Tamale in Ghana, and Kigali and Musanze in Rwanda.
In partnership with policy and civil society partners in these four cities, CLARITY-Africa seeks to:
- Expose the specific pathways through which extreme heat and microflooding impact human health
- Identify those who are most vulnerable to these environmental risks
- Understand how the harms can be avoided or reduced
Our approach is designed to co-produce contextualised understandings of climate risks and coping mechanisms employed in these settings, and to inform the co-design of adaptations that are appropriate for the local context. The results will be disseminated within Ghana and Rwanda as well as globally.
PARTNERS
A global research partnership
CLARITY-Africa is a partnership between the University of Ghana in Accra, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Research and Innovation Centre (AIMS RIC) in Kigali, Imperial College London, King’s College London, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and McGill in Montreal. This six-year programme is funded by the Wellcome Trust.