Climate readiness across Africa
Africa’s climate risks are rising. Readiness must rise with them.
Across the continent, climate impacts are intensifying while the systems, knowledge and capacity needed to anticipate, prepare and respond remain uneven.
- 37Jurisdictions examined
- 370Public-record observations
- 45Teachers trained
- 6Schools with Climate Clubs
- 200+Children reached through Rising Voices
- 10Crafting Tomorrow fellows
- 76Stakeholders consulted on CAI methodology
Our programmes
We build readiness where it has to work.
Climate readiness is the capacity of institutions and people to translate climate risks and commitments into effective action. Each programme works on a different level of that capacity — systemic, institutional and individual.
Climate Action Index
Capability level: Systemic · Institutional
Make institutional readiness visible.
A public evidence platform showing what institutions have in place, where critical gaps remain and where stronger climate systems are needed.
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Rising Voices
Capability level: Institutional · Individual
Build the knowledge to respond.
Children and young people identify a climate problem affecting their community, investigate it, test a response, and engage the people or institutions able to carry it further.
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Crafting Tomorrow
Capability level: Individual
Move from problems to solutions.
A youth innovation programme supporting young people to identify local climate challenges and develop, test and strengthen practical responses.
Explore the programmeInstitutions need evidence. People need knowledge. Communities need problem-solvers.
CCAIE brings these pieces together so climate action is not only planned, but increasingly possible to deliver.
Current opportunities
Rising Voices
Schools can register interest in hosting a Rising Voices cohort, with teacher support, programme resources and weekly missions.
Express interest
Mission Hub
Enrolled schools can access weekly climate missions for students to complete in their schools and communities.
School sign inCrafting Tomorrow
Young innovators can explore the programme and learn how to move from a climate problem to a tested solution.
Explore the programmeRising Voices 3.0
Coming to a school near you.
From Abuja, Kaduna and Jos — Rising Voices gives children and young people actual agency to identify a climate problem affecting their community, investigate it, test a response, and engage the people or institutions capable of carrying that response further.
Express interest for your schoolPartners & collaborators
Institutional partners
Work with CCAIE
Build climate readiness with us.
We work with governments, schools, foundations, universities, development partners and companies to strengthen the systems, knowledge and practical capabilities climate action depends on.
Partnerships can include institutional readiness and evidence, school-based climate learning, capacity building, public engagement and youth innovation.
