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When heavy rains arrive, classrooms flood. When temperatures spike, corrugated metal roofs turn classrooms into ovens. During these extremes experienced annually, children stop coming to school and stop learning.

• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Education
• Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
• 2026

Last week, CLEAN Helpdesk consortium partner, Social Development Direct, launched a new Learning Report from Phase 4 of the Plan International/Social Development Direct Building Equitable Partnerships Initiative(Building equitable partnerships and Equitable partnerships for locally led, globally connected development | Social Development Direct).

• United Kingdom
• Governance
• 2026

This year’s theme for International Women’s Day resonates strongly with the CLEAN Helpdesk’s way of working. Our team is committed to ensuring a focus on rights, justice and the actions people can take to be more inclusive across all our work.

• United Kingdom
• Social Protection
• Social Inclusion
• 2026

New CLEAN research highlights how gender equality, disability inclusion and risk-informed development approaches are essential to ensuring that blue economy programming strengthens resilience rather than deepens inequality.

• Antigua and Barbuda
• St Vincent and the Grenadines
• Barbados
• Cuba
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Gender Equity
• Social Inclusion
• Disability inclusion
• 2026


Climate change and serious organised crime are increasingly linked. Climate impacts weaken social control, strain local economies, and create opportunities for criminal groups, leading to instability and new illicit markets. At the same time, criminal activity worsens climate change through environmentally harmful practices and by undermining governance and the resilience of local and Indigenous communities.

• United Kingdom
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• International Climate Finance
• Serious and Organised Crimes
• 2024

This report responds to a request by the Climate, Environment and Nature (CLEAN) Helpdesk to support the UK government’s Yemen Office Network (YON). The brief set out in the terms of reference is to: -‘develop a robust evidence base of climate-related hazards that have the potential to exacerbate conflict and security risks; for areas under the control of the internationally recognised government of Yemen (IRG); in order to shape stabilisation, peace-building, and security-related interventions to address emerging challenges.’

• Yemen
• Humanitarian
• 2025

Climate change is already disrupting education systems worldwide and education is one of our strongest tools for building climate resilience. The latest CLEAN Helpdesk newsletter explores how climate-smart education planning can protect learning, reduce inequalities, and equip young people especially girls and marginalised communities with the skills to respond to climate challenges.

• United Kingdom
• Education
• 2026

This case study highlights how the CLEAN Helpdesk supported the FCDO’s Girls’ Education Department with strengthening climate-sensitive education programming and exploring ways to access climate finance.

• United Kingdom
• Education
• International Climate Finance
• 2026

This report focuses on gender equality, social inclusion and safeguarding issues, and the way in which these are, in many cases, entwined with climate and environmental degradation. The report: provides an overview of key structural inequalities relevant to the sustainable blue economy and its development in the Pacific; explores opportunities for addressing social inequities, reducing risks and empowering marginalised groups as part of sustainable blue economy investments; and highlights vital considerations for safeguarding and avoidance of harm.

• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Fiji
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• 2025

This report focuses especially on gender equality, social inclusion and safeguarding issues, and how these are, in many cases, entwined with climate and environmental degradation. The report: provides an overview of key structural inequalities relevant to the sustainable blue economy and its development in the Caribbean; explores opportunities for addressing social inequities, reducing risks and empowering marginalised groups as part of sustainable blue economy investments; and highlights vital considerations for safeguarding and avoidance of harm.

• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• 2025