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This snapshot looks at disaster- and climate- related legal and policy developments in Uganda, and how they connect with the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP).
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The publication highlights key lessons from the implementation of community-based climate adaptation initiatives in urban slums.
Assessing vulnerabilities to disaster displacement A good practice review
This paper reviews current practice for analysing and assessing disaster displacement risks and presents recommendations on how to effectively integrate a detailed vulnerability analysis to improve operational decision making.
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This Act, organized in 7 Parts and 4 Schedules, introduces its scope in Part 1: it is an Act adopted to give the force of law, in Uganda, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement.
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Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law to jointly examine human rights and gender equality dimensions of climate and disaster-related displacement in their cities.
CLIMADA Climate Risk Analysis  Urban flood resilience against  riverine floods in Uganda and  Nigeria
This report discusses how applying climate risk analysis for Kampala/Uganda and Lagos/Nigeria and demonstrates useful information of the methodology applied.
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The purpose of this study was to review selected National Adaptation Plans to better understand how disaster risk management is approached in climate change documents, and if systemic risk issues where impacts cascade across sectors are considered.
The aim of this needs assessment was to determine the main challenges transport planners and decisionmakers encounter in meeting the mobility needs of disadvantaged groups in the four project countries of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.

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