Launch of CGIAR's Regional Climate Security Hub for the MENA region

2 May 2023. CGIAR launched its first official Regional Climate Security Hub for the MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region in Cairo, Egypt. The MENA Regional Climate Security Hub will create a space for CGIAR’s centers and partners in the region to work together in generating climate security science for the MENA region.

The CGIAR MENA Regional Climate Security Hub brings to bear its expertise in building inclusive and climate-resilient food, land, and water system for the purposes of sustaining peace and stability. As identified in the CGIAR’s MENA Climate Security Position Paper, the collation of this expertise through the creation of the Hub is particularly important in a region characterized by significant climate vulnerability and natural resource scarcity, particularly water; a high dependency on climate-sensitive productive sectors and imports, such as agriculture; high rates of food and nutritional insecurity; as well as the presence of fragile and unstable contexts. 

To help address this complex and compounding risk landscape – and to harness the CGIAR’s thematic and technical value-added expertise to the intersection of climate change, peace, and security in the MENA region – the Hub aims to work with a diverse set of partners and stakeholders across regional, national, and sub-national levels.

The CGIAR MENA Regional Climate Security Hub seeks to bridge the science-policy interface by contributing to the formulation and implementation of local, national, and regional policies and programmatic interventions – including those of climate finance and investments.