USAID Climate Adaptation Support Activity (CASA) – Planning Phase

The Climate Adaptation Support Activity (CASA) program supports USAID/Washington and USAID Missions to implement the Agency’s ambitious Climate Strategy and the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) initiative. To support CASA, Clark University researchers, through a partnership with Tetra Tech ARD, will provide technical assistance and other support to: (1) Increase actionable information that supports the design and implementation of impactful climate change adaptation approaches, interventions, and systems shifts; (2) Identify strategic and forward-looking climate change adaptation and resilience approaches that support sustainable, scalable, and innovative adaptation, monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning; (3) Expand and provide inclusive capacity strengthening, convening, and coalition strengthening that supports impactful climate change adaptation action; and (4) Support CASA programmatic planning and implementation. This initial planning project will contribute to CASA start-up activities and project deliverables detailing Clark University’s longer-term role within CASA.