Transforming Social Inequalities Through Inclusive Climate Action (TSITICA) 

The TSITICA project’s main objective was to generate evidence on, and knowledge of, how African societies can design and implement climate action to improve sustainable livelihoods and reduce both poverty and inequality. This included generating robust evidence and insights on the two-way synergies and trade-offs that can play out between climate change action and multidimensional poverty and inequality. 

The second objective was to build a network of African and United Kingdom researchers to generate high-quality evidence towards an understanding of how climate change action can leverage sustainable development outcomes in Africa. 

Grounded in collaboration between the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research and the ARUA Centre of Excellence for Climate Development (ARUA-CD), each with strong teams in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, the network incorporates academics from four UK universities: the University of East Anglia, University of Manchester, University of Bristol, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

The ACEIR and ARUA-CD researchers are based at the University of Ghana, University of Nairobi, and the University of Cape Town.

The TSITICA teams were configurated according to the five themes that framed the study:

• Governance of climate change, social inequality and sustainable livelihoods.
• Multi-scale dynamics in inequality data that matter for climate compatible livelihoods.
• Future climate response options, portfolios and pathways that leverage co-benefits for the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Unpacking livelihood and equity outcomes of place-based climate change interventions: Practitioner perspectives. 
• Distributional impacts of climate action.

The project concluded in 2023 with an international multisectoral symposium on climate change and inequalities and the publication of a series of working papers, while taking the conversations on climate action and inequalities forward at subsequent international fora. 

The project was made possible with the support of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Visit the TSITICA website.

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