CCAPS Dashboard

The Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS) at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law of the University of Texas at Austin seeks to better understand the relationship between the growing threat of climate change and the ability of African countries to manage complex emergencies, including humanitarian disasters and violent conflict. The CCAPS program works in three main directions: 1) investigating where and how climate change poses threats to stability in Africa; 2) investigating the role of government institutions in mitigating or aggravating the effects of climate change on political stability; and 3) evaluating the effectiveness of foreign aid to help African countries adapt to climate change.

As part of its ongoing work, CCAPS maintains datasets on conflict in Africa (SCAD and ACLED), Climate Patterns and Climate Vulnerability, as well as governance and institutional capacity. To represent these datasets in an intuitive, informative, and visually appealing way, CCAPS and AidData are creating an interactive Mapping Dashboard, with integrated charts, graphs, and contextual information to present a complete picture of the interaction between climate change, aid, governance, and conflict across the African continent. The prototype dashboard, showing climate vulnerability and armed conflict events, will be unveiled at the COP17 climate conference in Durban, South Africa in December 2011.

Additionally, CCAPS has partnered with AidData to map all aid to Malawi through the Government's Aid Management Platform and to determine which of those aid projects are working to improve climate adaptation within Malawi.

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CCAPS Dashboard