The CLARS PROJECT

The CLARS project offers a platform to share replication and scaling of successful interventions and lived experiences with the possibility for the North (GLR) and South (LVB) stakeholders to learn from each other. It aims to develop co-produced adaptation strategies for reducing socioeconomic vulnerabilities (SEVs) and building resilience for vulnerable climate migrants and host communities across five Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) and Great Lakes Region (GLR) urban cities of Kampala, Mwanza, Eldoret, Detroit, and Hamilton.  The CLARS project connects eight partners in seven countries, merging together interdisciplinary research methods with local participants from both GLR and LVB regions to generate locally co-produced knowledge for reducing socioeconomic vulnerabilities (SEVs) and building resilience for vulnerable climate migrants and host communities. This project comprises an international consortium of universities and research institutes, funded through the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF, Canada). It also includes funding from the US National Science Foundation, the UK Research and Innovation fund and the German Research Foundation, DFG.