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This report explains the breadth of barriers facing businesses, in light of global estimates showing that the costs of climate change adaptation in developing countries will far exceed the public sector’s financial resources. These barriers include access

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Esta guía ha sido desarrollada como parte de la iniciativa DIPECHO IX “Proyecto regional: Protegiendo a grupos vulnerables de Centroamérica a través de la incorporación de principios humanitarios de protección en preparativos y respuesta”

This document presents an overview on the impact of the Dry Corridor phenomenon in Central America, and the work the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - in collaboration with its partners - is doing to support countries to increase disaster

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Este documento presenta un diagnóstico sociocultural con enfoque a niñas, niños y adolescentes sobre las estrategias de prevención, mitigación y gestión de riesgo practicados tradicionalmente entre los pueblos indígenas de la Región Autónoma

This is an action research publication of the Community Practitioners Platform (CPP) for Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean, an organizing and networking mechanism for community-based groups, grassroots women-led groups in particular, to reduce

This position document presents Partners for Resilience (PfR)'s unique approach to the building of community resilience, developed with more than 40 local implementing partner agencies, integrates climate change adaptation and ecosystem management and

This paper presents a comparative study on how governance systems and development situations have shaped progress on disaster risk management (DRM). It reviews a select number of different governance systems in terms of their institutional structures

This report analyzes the growing body of evidence linking community forest rights with healthier forests and lower carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Although this report concerns climate change mitigation, strengthening

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