ESRC WR DTC Collaborative Studentships

ESRC WR DTC Collaborative Studentships Session 2016-2017 – Closing Date: 5 March 2016

Project Title Delivering Integrated Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Programmes: Evaluating adaptive capacity and human well-being outcomes of a complex multi-objective climate-development programme Principal Name Dr Susannah Sallu School Earth and Environment Supervisor Tel No +44 113 3431641 E-Mail [email protected]

Project 1. Tanzania Forest Conservation Group Partner 2. Ongawa – Engineering for Human Development

Project Description This studentship is in collaboration with the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (http://www.tfcg.org/) and Ongawa (http://www.ongawa.org/en/).

Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning in poor countries is essential to reduce vulnerability and avoid reversal of development gains. However, such mainstreaming remains one of the biggest challenges encountering numerous hurdles, from the lack of cross-sectoral coordination and technical capacity, to time scale differences between development and adaptation goals, bureaucratic complexities, unclear distribution of costs and benefits, and possible trade-offs.

Increasingly Overseas Development Assistance and development projects try to deliver better integrated climate-development initiatives, variously labelled as climate proofing, climate-smart or climate resilient development. Whilst studies have investigated conceptually the interactions between climate change and development objectives poor understanding remains of how actual interactions between the multiple components of a programme in specific contexts affect outcomes for people’s adaptive capacity and human well-being. This studentship provides an opportunity for someone to progress ideas in this important area.

The project will aim to critically investigate interactions between multiple interventions of the Integrated Adaptation and Resilience programme in Tanzania, and how these affect local adaptive capacity and well- being. The student conducting this project will be supervised by Dr. Susannah Sallu & Dr. Monica Di Gregorio from the University of Leeds, with input from technical and field staff of the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group and Ongawa. The project will involve direct working with these organisations and a local District Council in Tanzania through focussed case study work on a EuropeAid funded Integrated Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Programme. This programme is currently being implemented by the collaborating NGOs and a local District Council, involving multiple forest-adjacent village communities in the East Usambara mountains of Tanzania. The East Usambara form part of the Eastern Arc mountains – which are globally important for biodiversity and very important for surrounding communities as a source of ecosystem services (see http://www.easternarc.org/ and http://www.valuingthearc.org/ for more information).

Drawing on the expertise of project supervisors, conceptually the project is likely to draw on the climate-development policy integration approach (Adelle & Russel 2013, Kok et al. 2008), resilience thinking (Folke et al. 2010) and multi- dimensional poverty and well-being approaches (Bourguignon and Chakravarty 2003). Impacts of multiple interventions within and between villages/communities will be explored using qualitative methods, or a combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods, to generate insights on mutual benefits, trade-offs and distribution of benefits and costs for local people. The research will involve a significant period of fieldwork in Tanzania for data collection. This project provides an opportunity to develop new academic insights that can inform evaluation of the current Adaptation and Resilience programme and the future design of development intervention and associated policy.

As well as being part of the White Rose Social Science DTC, the student on this project will benefit significantly from being based within the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/sri/ and from affiliation with the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (ESRC-CCCEP) http://www.cccep.ac.uk/, the Centre for Global Development http://cgd.leeds.ac.uk/ and the Researchers in Development Network http://cgd.leeds.ac.uk/ridnet/ at Leeds. Modules from two SRI-led Masters programmes (MSc Environment and Development & MSc Climate Change and Environmental Policy) provide state of the art training in climate change adaptation, environment and development, and environmental policy and governance. The student will join an active team of research students currently working in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa. The student will also benefit from research collaboration with staff and students at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. Entry Requirements Minimum UK Upper Second Class Honours or equivalent for 1+3 entry. For candidates wishing to enter on a +3 studentship a Masters degree will be required. Students with academic training in the following fields: Sustainability, Geography, Environmental studies, International Development, Climate Change and Public Policy studies will be particularly well suited to this PhD. Other relevant training and practical / work experience will also be considered. Some experience conducting fieldwork / working overseas is desirable. Willingness to conduct fieldwork in Tanzania is essential.

Application Process Name Michelle Lesnianski Tel No +44 113 3431634 Contact School http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/home E-Mail [email protected] We / b How to Apply for an ESRC WR DTC Studentship at Leeds: Applicants must first submit the relevant study application form(s) and be in receipt of a Student ID Number. Applicants must then complete the University’s ESRC WR DTC Studentship Application Form (click here for application form). This should be returned to [email protected] by the relevant deadline. Further details of the application procedure and information on other ESRC WR DTC Studentships at the University of Leeds can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rsa/postgraduate_scholarships/esrc-info

Full awards will cover UK/EU academic fees and a tax-free maintenance grant paid at standard Research Council rates (£14,057 in Session 2015/16) for full-time study, together with other allowances if appropriate. EU applicants will be eligible for an award paying tuition fees only, except in exceptional circumstances, or where residency has been established for more than 3 years prior to the start of the course.

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