Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122267 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
DIIS Working Paper No. 2013:13
Publisher: 
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
In the past ten years a significant number of policies and projects have been implemented in African countries in order to address climate change. At the same time, African countries have become more vocal in the global climate change negotiations. And yet there has been little analysis of domestic climate change agendas in African countries. This working paper is a modest first step in understanding the climate change agenda in one particular country, namely Zambia. The paper focuses on three features: It provides an overview of the disaster management and climate change framework at national level, it examines the role and extent of aid to climate change, and it discusses the interests of the central government in climate change. The paper finds that donors have played a central role in nurturing and influencing the climate change agenda in Zambia, and in developing the institutional framework for disaster management and climate change. However, the climate change agenda in Zambia is not only a donor construction: Although the issue is not high on the political agenda, there are de facto government interests related to climate change. This includes securing funding for civil service activities on the ground; addressing sensitive political aspects of disasters and food security; and dealing with possible threats to the national economy and political stability.
ISBN: 
978-87-7605-618-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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