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This profile aims to give insight in the climate change effects and impacts in Lebanon, with particular attention for food security and water.

Conflict, disasters, and state fragility have devastating effects on children’s lives, and further exacerbate challenges to providing inclusive education and child protection. The children who are most affected by exclusion and protection issues during

This strategy is a road map to have a common understanding of the disaster risk reduction (DRR) sector. It is guided by Jordan’s development priorities and aims specifically at achieving a set of objectives, including setting basic disaster risk reduction

This flood hazard map was produced using the Zonal Statistics tool, available in the Spatial Analysis toolbox in ArcMap, calculating the maximum value (MAX) of Q/A observed within each district.

ACT Alliance developed this publication as a contribution to the growing need to understand the dual urgency of increasing the ambition to address climate change in the wake of its devastating impacts and to significantly increase the allocation of

The threat of climate change is growing, affecting in particular those countries most prone to drought and desertification. Jordan recognized this risk and has been taking active measures to combat the effects of climate change. Yet in highly exposed

The purpose of this publication is to detail lessons learned from UNDP’s Climate Change Adaptation work and achievements in the Arab region on achieving sustainable and lasting results. Some lessons include building local capacity at all levels to ensure

The aligned National Action Plan (NAP) to Combat Desertification in Jordan 2015-2020 consists of a vision, logical framework, monitoring program on desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) and sustainable land management (SLM), and an

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