Climate Risk & Resilence Voices

Cross-cutting perspectives from ATFL Fellows and experts examining the ideas, tools, and strategies shaping how we navigate climate risk and build resilience.

Their work explores new ideas about how African countries and other global communities understand and respond to accelerating climate risks. Contributions span a wide range of themes, including data, monitoring and forecasting, technology deployment, policy and investment choices, geopolitics, local and community-level responses, and cross-sector impacts.

We translate these insights into actionable recommendations to support better decision-making and more effective, context-aware approaches to managing climate risk and strengthening resilience in practice.

Featured Experts

Jeremiah Ogunniyi

Predicting Extreme Weather in Data-Constrained African Contexts
Jerimiah’s fellowship examines how extreme weather risks can be better predicted and managed in data-constrained African contexts. Drawing on urban flooding research and other cases, he analyzes the underlying drivers of vulnerability—from infrastructure gaps to adaptive capacity—and explores how foundational data gaps limit the direct transfer of AI and machine-learning methods developed in high-income settings. His work identifies practical ways to overcome these constraints and translate climate and weather analysis into insights that African planners, policymakers, and institutions can actually use.
Amma Panin

Understanding Africa’s Missing Insurance Markets
Amma's fellowship examines why formal insurance markets remain underdeveloped across much of Africa and what this means for individuals and households facing both everyday and catastrophic risks. Drawing on her research in behavioral economics, she analyzes the structural, institutional, and behavioral barriers that make it difficult to formally insure against risks in African contexts. Her work explores the consequences of these missing markets, while identifying practical pathways for strengthening formal risk-sharing mechanisms that complement rather than replace existing informal systems.