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Despite a long tradition of coping with water and weather variability, floods, droughts and extreme weather events remain a serious challenge in the Southeast Asia region. Its ability to manage the increasing impact of disasters will have important

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This review explores how climate resilience programmes and projects can be designed, established and managed to be resilient themselves in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. It combines evidence-based learning from over four years of implementation

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This plan aims to achieve climate-resilience and pursue a low-carbon growth pathway by 2030, while harnessing related benefits for present and future generations.
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This paper quantifies the coastal protection provided by mangroves for 42 developing countries in the current climate, and a future climate change scenario with a one-meter sea level rise and 10 percent intensification of storms. The benefits of the

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This brief synthesises some of the main findings from the (Rapid Response Research) RRR project, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of the project’s new approaches. It provides quick highlights of eight insights and encourages readers to delve into the

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Millions of adolescent girls are in need of humanitarian assistance. A crisis heightens their vulnerability to gender-based violence, unwanted pregnancy, HIV infection, maternal death and disability, early and forced marriage, rape, trafficking, and

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In the countries of the Mekong Region: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, environmental sustainability continues to be a major concern. As rapid economic growth and increased regional economic integration continue apace, environmental

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This series offers comprehensive information and orientation on Myanmar's risk reduction capacity, disaster management, and school safety policies and practices.

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