Pathways to Resilience in Semi-arid Economies (PRISE) CARIAA consortium report February 2014 - November 2018

PRISE (www.prise.odi.org) (2014–2018) was funded through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) programme, launched by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) in 2013, to fund adaptation research on three ‘hotspots’ of climate vulnerability: glacier-fed rivers, mega-deltas, and semi-arid lands (de Souza et al., 2015). ‘Hotspots’ are defined as areas where a strong climate signal coincides with a large concentration of poor, vulnerable or marginalised people. PRISE developed projects in seven countries with semi-arid regions: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Tanzania (until 2015), Pakistan and Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (since 2016). CARIAA is also rooted in progressive research for development principles, including knowledge co-creation (Harvey et al., 2017) and transdisciplinarity (Cundill et al., 2018), and this is reflected in the approaches and methodology employed by PRISE.This report summarises: the key thematic, national and global findings and policy recommendations; related engagement activities and stories of impact; the approach taken by the consortium and how it was set up and managed; the monitoring of outcomes; the lessons learned; and next steps for how the research findings and recommendations can be used to inform future programming and the climate adaptation and ‘leave no one behind’ agendas