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

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

A report of the 2nd phase of International Disaster Response Training in Jos Nigeria:

This report highlights hazard and vulnerability mapping with proposals for risk reduction and includes disaster preparedness and effective response. The report also

Report of the international disaster response capacity building workshop:

This report outlines the six modules covered: (i) International Disaster Response (IDR); (ii) safety and security; (iii) first aid; (iv) disaster risk reduction; (v) seeds for

This paper proposes a methodology to examine the potential of existing National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans NAFSIPs to generate climate change benefits. A rapid screening methodology is presented and applied to 14 NAFSIPs, all of which

This policy brief, issued while Governments discuss how to adapt to climate change in Durban, reflects that African countries are committed and investing funds to reduce risk to floods and droughts, albeit too little and still insufficiently in

The National Disaster Response Plan (NDRP) establishes a process and structure for the systematic, coordinated, and effective delivery of Federal assistance, to address the consequences of any major disaster or emergency declared by the President of the

The National Disaster Management Framework (NDMF) provides a mechanism that serves as a regulatory guideline for effective and efficient disaster management in Nigeria.

Some of the framework's objectives are:

- Establish functional disaster management

Reflect & act - July 2011, Research reveals the immense significance of ‘invisible’ water to the urban poor:

This briefing reflects on an International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) project on water resource management carried out

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