National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

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This work set out to determine the effectiveness or applicability of indigenous practices in a major Nigerian city, Port Harcourt increasingly facing flooding on a yearly basis.
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This research engages with experts in the field of flood risk management in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country where the threats and frequency of flooding has increased over the years.
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This publication reports on the implementation of Save the Children's localisation policies in Nigeria, offering lessons learned.
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This report is geared toward helping project managers develop appropriate gender-related targets for climate projects and a suitable Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning (MEL) system to track achievement over time.
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This report is an assessment of progress at the regional level and in West Africa against the ‘African Union Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in Africa’.
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This report is a hazard and vulnerability analysis for Yobe State, Nigeria.
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The novelty of this study is to examine how flooding leads to or aggravates poverty levels, which is highly plausible in the case of Nigeria and particularly the Makoko community.
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This document throws a searchlight on the institutional gaps in Nigeria’s disaster risk management with particular attention to flooding.

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