Clare Shakya

Equitable transitions to climate resilient and low emission development pathways, which empower the poor; managing risk and uncertainty through flexible, adaptive and politically astute approaches to development; processes for strategic influencing through amplifying voice and real time learning into policy change; integration and blending of climate finance into development and humanitarian programming; natural resource governance, in particular water resources, land and forests; enabling the private sector to develop affordable energy services and resilient value chains; building southern capabilities to manage risk including parametric risk insurance and climate information services.

Senior climate change adviser at DFID, where I led climate change work for Africa Division and, earlier, for Asia Division. This included leading a review of climate work across the division and agreeing priorities, setting up facilities such as the Africa Risk Capacity and the South Asia Water Initiative and high level processes such as the Energy Africa campaign. Wider experience includes Commission For Africa, tackling the social impacts of AIDS, developing a toolkit for poverty and social impact analysis, community monitoring and setting up learning processes for sustainable livelihoods approaches.