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A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk

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This fact sheet presents UNOPS activities in helping governments and development partners construct disaster-resistant infrastructure and increase the resilience of communities against natural disasters through the design and construction of major

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This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Sudan, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as drought and insect infestation.
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This report, the first report in the UN-Habitat series on the state of cities to focus on the Arab world, highlights issues of environmental and natural disasters, risk and vulnerability, within a collective picture of urban conditions and trends in each

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A briefing paper on how Practical Action is building 'resilience' into its projects, the paper uses six case studies from Peru, Bangladesh, Sudan, Nepal and Kenya. The case studies offer a variety of entry points (disaster risk reduction, food security

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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

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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

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This document introduces the international German Red Cross (GRC) cooperation, which includes disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) as one of its main sector. It presents some concrete examples of GRC projects in the sectors of

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