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Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom - gov
- Organization type:Governmental
General contact information
- URL: http://www.dfid.gov.uk
- Address: 1 Palace Street
- Postal Code: SW1E 5HE
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Telephone: +44 2070230000
- Fax: +44 2070230000
- Email: enquiry@dfid.gov.uk
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
DFID is the UK Government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty.
- Call for concept notes: Collaborative research on climate change adaptation in Africa and Asia
20 Feb 2013 - UK to include disaster risk reduction in all country programmes
15 Jun 2011 - Can playing games with disasters make sense?
5 Apr 2011 - 'UK Govt must be prepared for increase in natural disasters and emergencies' - report
28 Mar 2011 - DFID: New climate network to link developing countries and drive adaptation
17 Mar 2010 - UK: $10bn climate fund would support poor countries - PM
28 Nov 2009 - UK commits £50 million climate network to link over 60 developing countries
27 Nov 2009
National Policy, Plans & Statements
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- UK: Eliminating world poverty - building our common future2009, DFID, United Kingdom - gov
- The economics of early response and disaster resilience: lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia
2012 - Promoting innovation and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and responding to humanitarian crises
2012 - Community-driven disaster risk management and reduction in the Philippines
2012 - Changing climate, changing disasters: pathways to integration
2012 - Re-shaping policy and institutions for integrating climate and disaster resilience
2012 - Learning to ADAPT: monitoring and evaluation approaches in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction -- challenges, gaps and ways forward
2011 - Saving lives, preventing suffering and building resilience
2011 - Humanitarian emergency response review: UK Government response
2011 - Multilateral Aid Review: ensuring maximum value for money for UK aid through multilateral organisations
2011 - The economics of climate change in the United Republic of Tanzania
2011 - Risk to resilience: strategic tools for disaster risk management
2010 - Good practices and lessons learned: disaster risk reduction through schools
2010 - Climate resilient and sustainable urban development
2010 - Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management in brief
2010 - The economics of climate change in Central America: summary 2010
2010 - Quantification and magnitude of losses and damages resulting from the impacts of climate change: modelling the transformational impacts and costs of sea level rise in the caribbean
2010 - Climate change and education, Maldives
2010 - Climate change and education, Bangladesh
2010 - The economics of adaptation to climate change: a synthesis report
2010 - The costs to developing countries of adapting to climate change: new methods and estimates
2010 - Climate change in sub-Saharan Africa
2010 - Climate change adaptation in Africa: COP 15, what’s at stake for Africa?
2009 - Water ecosystem services and poverty under climate change: key issues and research priorities
2009 - Good practices for community resilience
2009 - Impacts assessment and climate change adaptation strategies in Makawanpur district, Nepal
2008 - In the midst of climate change and climate-related disaster risks: raising policy questions
2008 - Desk review: evaluation of adaptation to climate change from a development perspective
2008 - Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: closing the gap
2008 - Climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and social protection: a briefing note
2008 - Convergence of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
2008 - Degrees of separation: climate change, shared challenges, shared opportunities
2008 - Characteristics of a disaster-resilient community: a guidance note, version 1 (for field testing)
2007 - Reducing the risk of disasters - helping to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in a vulnerable world: a DFID policy paper
2006 - Approaches to equity in post-tsunami assistance: Sri Lanka, a case study
2006 - Review of ISDR secretariat’s regional offices: 9-21st August 2004
2005 - Natural disaster and disaster risk reduction measures: a desk review of costs and benefits
2005 - Disaster risk reduction: a development concern, a scoping study on links between disaster risk reduction, poverty and development
2004 - The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), 1990-1999: a report on the activities of the UK National Coordination Committee for the IDNDR
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