Gambia, Republic of The

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This country climate smart agriculture (CSA) profile for the Gambia provides a snapshot of a developing baseline created to initiate discussion, both within countries and globally, about entry points for investing in CSA at scale.

An act to provide for an integrated and co-ordinated disaster management that focuses prevention, preparedness, response, mitigation and recovery from disasters or emergency situations as well as the management of the effects from such events; to

This paper aims to raise awareness about Loss and Damage (L&D) and ignite a conversation about how Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Loss & Damage (L&D) can be linked in order to ensure more sustainable resiliency

This paper presents the results from a multi-country research on loss and damage in vulnerable communities, to study how households with different vulnerability profiles try to deal with climatic stressors and their (in)ability to avoid loss and damage.

Uncertainty about future climate creates challenges in both adaptation planning and evaluation. Defining and determining success in adaptation therefore can be difficult. This publication, however, does not attempt to address all of the issues and

This report analyses the existing legal and policy frameworks for disaster management and response in the Gambia focusing on the facilitation and regulation of international disaster assistance. The report also provides an assessment of strengths and gaps

This working paper summarises some of the key learning points that have emerged from working with nine developing countries as they prepare their INDCs for submission to the UNFCCC by October 2015. The authors conducted a series of interviews with people

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The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the 2013-15 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.

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