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This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in East and Southeast Asia. For the purpose of this review, East Asia is defined as including China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Mongolia. Southeast Asia is

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

This document addresses preparedness as an important investment against natural and man-made disasters. Through good practices, it urges the humanitarian community, governments and regional bodies to use preparedness thinking to be aware of risks, to

This report highlights the ways UNICEF is working to foster children's resilience in the face of tragedy, and their capacity to hope for – and build – a better future at the individual, community and institutional levels. The first chapter especially

This calendar has been developed to help better prepare for food-related emergencies. It works by combining the most authoritative data on seasonal hazards like floods, droughts, pests and cyclones with information about crop cycles and weather patterns.

This declaration lays out a number of commitments countries will work towards to advance the rights of the nearly 1.2 billion children in the Asia-Pacific Region. It focuses on regional cooperation in three key areas: (i) disaster risk reduction; (ii)

This document reports on a programme set up to reduce the risk of 'natural' disasters and help communities of the most flood-prone provinces in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to protect themselves, overcoming the effects of disasters, raising

This report presents the results of a workshop focusing on the high seismic risk in the northeast Asia region and offering scientists and engineers from various countries the opportunity to discuss regional approaches to improve collaboration in