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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
Estimating least-developed countries’ vulnerability to climate-related extreme events over the next 50 years	NAS	2010
Climate changed: people displaced	NRC	2009
Rebuilding lives after the tsunami, the children's road to recovery: five years later	SCI	2009
Building climate and disaster resilience into city planning and management processes	WB	2009
Towards improved public awareness for climate related disaster risk reduction and management in the Arab region	UNESCO Cairo	2010
Climate change in Africa	IIED	2009
Climate‐related vulnerability and adaptive‐capacity in Ethiopia’s Borana and Somali communities	CI; IISD; IUCN; SCI	2009
Lessons learned on mainstreaming pilot projects into larger projects	UNEP	2009
Risks, ex-ante actions, and public assistance: impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi	IFPRI	2009
Natural disasters, self-insurance, and human capital investment	IFPRI	2009
Climate change: filling the financing gap	IFC	2010
Action pledges: making a difference on the ground	UNFCCC	2009
Risk in situ: crisis and risk reduction	EPFL; GIAN; UNISDR; UNIGE	2007
Early warning, early action: an evaluation of IFRC West and Central Africa zone flood preparedness and response, 2008	IFRC; Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre	2009
Baseline report: Africa community resilience project	FIC; Tufts Univ; WVI	2009
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)	Krishnamurthy, R.R.; Glavovic, Bruce C.; Kannen, Andreas; Green, David R.; Ramanathan, AL.; Han, Zengcui; Tinti, Stefano; Agardy, Tundi (Eds.)	2008
Disaster reduction and human security	KU GSGES; UNESCO	2005
Climate change, disaster, displacement and migration: initial evidence from Africa	UNHCR	2009
2°C is too much! WWF adaptation case studies for responding to climate change impacts	WWF	2009
Climate change adaptation in Africa: COP 15, what’s at stake for Africa?	DFID, United Kingdom - gov; IDRC	2009
Briefing note 02: adaptation to climate change by reducing disaster risks: country practices and lessons	UNISDR	2009
2009 in-depth vulnerability and needs technical assessment report	ZVAC, Zambia - gov	2009
Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels	IISD; WB	2009
Running dry? Climate change in drylands and how to cope with it	GIZ, Germany - gov	2009
Climate sense	WMO	2009
The winds of change: climate change, poverty and the environment in Malawi	Oxfam Intl	2009
Multi-sectoral in-depth vulnerability and needs assessment	ZVAC, Zambia - gov	2008
Human development report 2009, overcoming barriers: human mobility and development	UNDP	2009
Beyond Aid: ensuring adaptation to climate change works for the poor	Oxfam GB	2009
Turning up the heat climate change and poverty in Uganda	Oxfam Intl	2008
Climate change, development and energy problems in South Africa: another world is possible	Earthlife Africa Jhb; Oxfam Intl	2008
Disaster reduction programme 2001–2008: summary of lessons learned and recommendations	IFRC	2009
The path to responsible development: disaster risk reduction	InterAction	2008
Mapping South African farming sector vulnerability to climate change and variability	IFPRI	2009
The Millennium Development Goals report 2009	UN DESA	2009
Index insurance and climate risk: prospects for development and disaster management	IRI	2009
Natural disasters and development in Botswana: what can communities do to cushion themselves against the adverse effects of floods?	UB	2009
Disaster: how the Red Cross Red Crescent reduces risk	IFRC	2009
Disaster risk reduction: precondition for achieving sustainable development	WHH	2009
Preparing for disaster saves lives	ECHO	2008
Our climate, our children, our responsibility: the implications of climate change for the world’s children	UNICEF	2008
Recommendations of national platforms to the chair and participants of the second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Geneva, 16-19 June 2009)	National Platform representatives at pre-session event, 2009 Global Platform	2009
Towards a global climate agreement	ClimateWorks	2009
Mozambique: disaster risk management along the Rio Búzi	GIZ, Germany - gov; BMZ, Germany - gov	2005
GFDRR Track 1, building global and regional partnership: giving risk reduction a regional dimension	GFDRR; UNISDR; WB	2009
Adapting to global change: Mediterranean forests	FAO Headquarters; IUCN; AECID, Spain - gov; WWF	2008
Rapport synthèse du séminaire régional de formation sur les outils et les méthodologies pour la prise en compte des risques liés aux changements climatiques dans les politiques de sécurité alimentaire en Afrique de l'Ouest	IAVS	2009
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
Adaptation in Africa: the global failure to deliver on funding	IIED	2008
ARC briefing note on the second Africa regional platform for disaster risk reduction consultative meeting, 5-7 May 2009	IISD	2009