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India nurtures youth advocates for climate action
15 May 2013, AlertNet
India is stepping up efforts to educate school and university students on climate change and its impacts on people’s lives, with the aim of raising awareness and tempting them into related careers. Climate change adaptation will be one of the issues in focus at the Global platform for disaster risk reduction in Geneva, Switzerland...
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- 2nd climate change and population conference on Africa03-07 Jun 2013, Ghana (Accra)
- Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation online course10 Jun - 09 Sep 2013, Worldwide
- Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation short course01-05 Jul 2013, United Kingdom (Brighton)
- Post graduate diploma and certificate programme in disaster managementIDMVS; DU, Bangladesh (Dhaka)
- MA programme on sustainable urban governance and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
- Disaster risk management: the case of earthquakesUNIGE, Switzerland (Geneva)
Working with the community: conducting participatory action research - a handbook for facilitators in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands2012, CRF; RCS Solomon Islands; RCS Vanuatu
Training curriculum on women leadership in disaster risk reduction2012, NARRI; NIRAPAD
- International Day for Disaster Reduction in Rwanda2012, MIDIMAR, Rwanda - gov
- Resilient women: women become change makers after 5 years of tsunami2010, GROOTS; SSP
- BBC World Debate: ‘Prevent or React’2009, BBC
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- gendercc - women for climate justice platform for information, knowledge and networking
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