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CARE International (CI)
- Organization type:Non-Governmental Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://www.care-international.org/
- Address: Chemin de Balexert 7-9
- Postal Code: 1219
- City: Geneva
- Country: Switzerland
- Telephone: +41 227951020
- Fax: +41 227951029
- Email: cisecretariat@careinternational.org
- Head of the organization: Robert Glasser
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
CARE is an independent humanitarian organization working to end world poverty. Its mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.
- Where the rain falls: Innovative study unravels relationship between climate change, and migration in the Global South
29 Nov 2012 - CARE: Gender cannot be ignored
9 Dec 2011 - COP17 Climate Change Conference: CARE calls on leaders to stop gambling with the fate of the planet and its most vulnerable people
23 Nov 2011 - 'Poverty causes disasters and disasters cause poverty' - CARE
9 May 2011 - Africa: Consultation on new ACCRA adaptive capacity framework
12 Oct 2010 - Philippines: EC implements DRR in recovery for communities hit by typhoon Pepeng
16 Feb 2010 - Viet Nam: Giang and Nhe protects the mangrove
- Recognise the strength of women and girls in reducing disaster risks: stories from Viet Nam
2012 - Integrating sexual and reproductive health into health emergency and disaster risk management
2012 - One planet – one future: equity and resilience for sustainable development
2012 - Into unknown territory: the limits to adaptation and reality of loss and damage from climate impacts
2012 - Pakistan floods emergency: Lessons from a continuing crisis
2012 - Disaster risk reduction and water, sanitation and hygiene ... comprehensive guidance: a guideline for field practitioners planning and implementing WASH interventions
2011 - Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change: The role of development interventions
2011 - COP17 policy position paper on adaptation: placing poor people and women at the centre of the world’s response to climate change
2011 - Draft good practice principles for cross border programming in the drylands of the horn of Africa
2011 - Towards a characterisation of adaptive capacity: a framework for analysing adaptive capacity at the local level
2010 - Adaptation, gender and women’s empowerment
2010 - CARE Brasil’s experience in local development: reducing vulnerabilities and improving capacities for adaptation in the coast of Bahia
2010 - Framework of milestones and indicators for community-based adaptation
2010 - Toolkit for integrating climate change adaptation into development projects
2010 - CARE’s perspective on the MDGs: building on success to accelerate progress towards 2015
2010 - The ACCRA adaptive capacity framework: consultation document
2010 - Climate change brief: what is adaptation to climate change?
2010 - Four on-the-spot motto in disaster management: key contents and actual application
2010 - Climate vulnerability and capacity analysis
2009 - Climate‐related vulnerability and adaptive‐capacity in Ethiopia’s Borana and Somali communities
2009 - In search of shelter: mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement
2009 - Linking disaster risk reduction, environment management and development practices and practitioners in Asia Pacific region: a review of opportunities for integration
2008 - Policy position paper on adaptation
2008 - Humanitarian implications of climate change: mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots
2008 - Guidelines for rapid environmental impact assessment in disasters
2005 - After the tragedy in the Indian Ocean: a time to remember, reflect and recommit, December 2004 through October 2005
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- Nicaragua: Feria educativa - reducción de riesgos de desastres
12 Oct 2012 - COP 17 side event - Addressing the gender dimension of vulnerability: An adaptation framework that works for everyone
30 Nov 2011 - Primer congreso internacional de aprendizaje e intercambio interactivo de experiencias entre el consorcio de agencias humanitarias en Bolivia y otros actores, sobre: gestión de riesgos y adaptación, desarrollo de capacidades y rendición de cuentas
28-30 Nov 2011
- International consultants for livelihood action research
16 Mar 2013 - Consultant team (include national and international consultants)
16 Mar 2013 - Consultant for leading a disaster management curriculum development team
4 Nov 2011 - Regional emergency coordinator for east and central Africa
10 Sep 2011 - Consultant to support the development of short and long-term strategies for scaling up successful DIPECHO and ECHO food security/DRR Interventions
19 Jul 2011 - Invitation to tender - Final evaluation of four year Niger disaster risk reduction programme
23 Feb 2011 - Technical proposal writer
10 Feb 2011 - Chief of party - Mekong Adaptation Programme
7 Jan 2011 - Chief of party - Nepal Adaptation Programme
7 Jan 2011 - Senior technical advisor - climate change
9 Oct 2010 - Climate change advisor
13 Jul 2009 - Chef de project reduction des risques de catastrophes
30 Apr 2009 - Disaster risk reduction coordinator
30 Sep 2008
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