About
CCAIE is an African climate-readiness institution working across evidence, education and innovation. We help public institutions understand where climate-readiness gaps exist, help schools turn climate priorities into practical learning, and support locally grounded solutions.
What makes our approach different
We do more than identify gaps. We use evidence to inform institutional support, learning and practical responses.
Climate education is not separate from implementation. Schools, teachers and young people need the knowledge and tools to understand climate challenges and respond to them.
Youth innovation begins with documented climate challenges and local needs, not innovation for its own sake.
Our work is built around a simple idea: climate ambition matters, but progress depends on the systems, knowledge and capacity to act.
How our model works
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The Climate Action Index uses public evidence to assess institutional climate readiness and identify where gaps remain.
Explore the Climate Action Index
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Climate-Safe Schools helps teachers and students understand climate issues, explore local challenges and take action through practical learning.
Explore Climate-Safe Schools
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Crafting Tomorrow supports young people to move from identified climate problems to ideas, prototypes and tested solutions.
Explore Crafting TomorrowOther CCAIE initiatives, including Rising Voices, extend climate learning and public engagement around this work.
Our story
CCAIE was established around a recurring problem: climate commitments were growing, but the systems needed to turn them into action were often incomplete.
Our work has since developed around three connected areas — evidence, education and innovation — brought together through a common focus on climate readiness.
Today, CCAIE works with institutions, schools, young people and partners to strengthen the practical foundations needed for climate action.
People
A small, multidisciplinary team working across evidence, education, innovation and institutional partnerships.
Founder & Executive Lead
Programmes & Partnerships
Research & Evidence
Technical & Policy Lead
Operations & Engagement
Communications & Youth Mobilisation
Leadership and governance
Provides oversight of institutional strategy, finance, governance and risk.
Responsible for CCAIE's programmes, operations, partnerships and institutional development.
CCAIE works with relevant experts and reviewers to strengthen the quality of its research, methodologies and technical work.
Governance
Our governing board provides oversight of institutional strategy, finance, governance and risk.
Governance and verification
CCAIE maintains institutional policies and records to support responsible programme delivery and partner due diligence.
Safeguarding and child protection
Data protection and research ethics
Anti-corruption and conflict-of-interest controls
Financial and procurement controls
Governance and organisational records
Relevant institutional documents and reports can be accessed through our evidence and reporting resources or requested through CCAIE.
Partners & collaborators
CCAIE works with public institutions, foundations, civil-society organisations, schools and other partners across its programmes.
Work with us
We work with governments, schools, foundations, universities, development partners and companies on defined climate-readiness programmes.
Donate
Your support extends public climate evidence, puts practical learning into more classrooms, and backs young innovators building solutions in their own communities.
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