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Disaster risk reduction related documents from the ISDR partnership and the disaster risk reduction (DRR) community.

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Title	Source	Publication Date
Area-based development, local institutions and climate adaptation: a comparative analysis from West Africa and Latin America	WB	2011
Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels	IISD; WB	2009
Assessment of the socio-economic impact of desert locust and their control	FAO Headquarters	2002
Assessment of tsunami impacts on the marine environment of the Seychelles	IUCN; UNEP	2005
Assessment report on the April 2004 floods : Republic of Djibouti	WHO	2004
Assistance to food-insecure people suffering from the effects of natural disasters and HIV/AIDS	WFP	2008
At a crossroads: humanitarianism for the next decade	SCI	2010
Bank Group climate risk management and adaptation strategy (CRMA)	AfDB	2009
Baseline report: Africa community resilience project	FIC; Tufts Univ; WVI	2009
Basic education and disaster risk management - Concept paper	GIZ, Germany - gov	2007
Beijing agenda for global action on gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction	The participants from 50 countries, UN agencies and Civil Societies at the International Conference on Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction held at Beijing, China from 20-22 April 2009	2009
Beyond Aid: ensuring adaptation to climate change works for the poor	Oxfam GB	2009
Bibliothèque, prévention et aléas naturels, Madagascar: catalogue	UNISDR	2007
Botswana national report prepared for the IDNDR mid-term review and the 1994 World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Yokohama, Japan, 23-27 May 1994	Botswana - gov	1994
Briefing note 02: adaptation to climate change by reducing disaster risks: country practices and lessons	UNISDR	2009
Briefing note 04: effective measures to build resilience in Africa to adapt to climate change	UNISDR	2011
Briefing on the Horn of Africa drought 2011: disaster risk reduction – fundamental to saving lives and reducing poverty	Oxfam Intl	2011
Briefing on the Horn of Africa drought: climate change and future impacts on food security	Oxfam Intl	2011
Building a sustainable future: protecting communities	AusAid, Australia - gov	2012
Building back better: a 12-month update on UNICEF’s work to rebuild children’s lives and restore hope since the tsunami	UNICEF	2005
Building capabilities for flood disaster and hazard preparedness and risk reduction in Nigeria: need for spatial planning and land management	Clarion University of Pennsylvania	2012
Building climate and disaster resilience into city planning and management processes	WB	2009
Building disaster resilient communities: good practices and lessons learned	UNISDR	2007
Building resilience and fostering growth in the horn of Africa	USAID, United States of America - gov	2012
Building resilience in practice	Practical Action	2012
Building resilience to climate change through farmer-managed natural regeneration in Niger and land rehabilitation in Burkina Faso	ELAN	2011
Building resilience: Bridging food security, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction	SDC, Switzerland - gov; WFP	2011
Building resilient communities through empowering women with information and communication technologies: a Pakistan case study	Khalafzai, Arshad Khan; Nirupama, Niru	2011
Building the future of humanitarian aid: local capacity, partnerships in disasters and the future of emergency aid	CA	2012
Building the future: a report on the IUCN programme 2005-2008	IUCN	2008
Burkina Faso national report prepared for the IDNDR mid-term review and the 1994 World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Yokohama, Japan, 23-27 May 1994	Burkina Faso - gov	1994
Cameroon national report prepared for the IDNDR mid-term review and the 1994 World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Yokohama, Japan, 23-27 May 1994	Cameroon - gov	1994
Capacity needs assessment in disaster risk reduction: county, district and community assessment	Liberia - gov; UNDP Liberia	2009
Case study: African cities at risk	UN-HABITAT	2008
Case study: Taking the edge off extreme-weather impacts	IFRC	2011
CDP water disclosure South Africa report 2011: assessing the value of water	CDP; NBI; WSP	2012
Chad national report prepared for the IDNDR mid-term review and the 1994 World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Yokohama, Japan, 23-27 May 1994	Chad - gov	1994
Chad national report prepared for the IDNDR mid-term review and the 1994 World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Yokohama, Japan, 23-27 May 1994	Chad - gov	1994
Changement de climats, vies en changement	ACF International; IDS; Tearfund	2011
Changing climates, changing lives: adaptation strategies of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia and Mali	ACF International; IDS; Tearfund	2010
Changing nature of gender roles in the drylands of the horn and east Africa: Implications for DRR programming	REGLAP	2011
Child rights and climate change adaptation: voices from Kenya and Cambodia	IDS; Plan Intl	2010
Cities and climate change academy Africa workshop, Kampala, Uganda, 3-5 May 2011	MAK; UN-HABITAT	2011
Cities and climate change: initial lessons from UN-HABITAT	UN-HABITAT	2009
City resilience in Africa: a ten essentials pilot	UNISDR	2012
Climate and land degradation	Sivakumar, Mannava V. K.; Ndiang'ui, Ndegwa	2007
Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in Zimbabwe	IIED	2012
Climate change adaptation and the fight against desertification: introductory note number 1	OSS	2007
Climate change adaptation in Africa: COP 15, what’s at stake for Africa?	DFID, United Kingdom - gov; IDRC	2009
Climate change adaptation strategies: water resources management options for smallholder farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa	Earth Instit; MDG Centre, East and Southern Africa (The); Rockefeller Fndn	2009