African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP)
The African Climate Change Fellowship Program (ACCFP) enables African practitioners, researchers, educators and graduate students to undertake activities that enhance their capacities for advancing and applying knowledge for climate change adaptation in Africa. The program is currently supporting its third …
Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
The Asia Pacific Network (APN) is an intergovernmental network whose mission is to foster global environmental change research in the Asia-Pacific region, increase developing country participation in that research, and strengthen interactions between the science community and policy makers. APN has …
CORDEX Africa
The CORDEX Africa program brings together African climate and meteorology scientists with African scientists involved in vulnerability, impacts and adaptation (VIA) research to interpret raw downscaled data for information on how climate processes over the continent may change, and to …
Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)
START supports capacity building for the NASA project, “Global Observations of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics” (GOFC-GOLD), which was developed to improve the quality and availability of remote-sensing observations of forests and land cover at regional and global scales, and …
Graduate Student Research Opportunity in Climate Risk Management
The Graduate Student Research Opportunity in Climate Risk Management fosters a network of young researchers interested in action-oriented and collaborative research on climate, development, and humanitarian work. The program aims to enhance knowledge about how climate threats and risks should be taken into account to improve humanitarian decisions within Africa.
START Grants for Global Environmental Change Research in Africa
START’s Grants for Global Environmental Change Research in Africa are awarded to African scientists for one-year projects on global environmental change (GEC) in Africa.
Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA)
The Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA) project developed risk communication methods and tools capable of supporting stakeholder decision-making about climate change and related risks in 17 countries in Africa and Asia.
African Doctoral Fellowships
In 2002, the International START Secretariat and the Pan African START Secretariat (PASS) began a fellowship program for outstanding young African scientists engaged in global environmental change research leading to doctoral dissertation.
Assessments of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC)
AIACC filled gaps in scientific knowledge and capacity by funding, training, and mentoring developing country scientists to undertake multi-sector, multi-country research of priority to developing countries.
Climate Prediction and Agriculture (CLIMAG)
The CLIMAG Project was completed in 2005. Climate Prediction and Agriculture (CLIMAG) was an interdisciplinary project implemented in Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America by START in partnership with the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI), the World …
Supporting Regional Research & Assessments
START is dedicated to strategic place-based regional research that substantially contributes to understanding and addressing critical knowledge needs of global environmental change impacts, risks, assessments, and vulnerabilities within developing regions. Initiatives inform national, regional, and international policy and stimulate regional ownership, fostering integrated, multidisciplinary approaches for adaptation at regional scales.
START supports regional research through program such as Grants for Global Environmental Change Research in Africa, Assessments on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture, Assessments of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change (AIACC), CORDEX, Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study, and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN).