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This collection of case studies from across the globe showcases practical, real-world examples of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction in action.

The need to understand, adapt to, and mitigate disaster risks is greater than ever. These case studies are in-depth studies of a particular case in a real-world context. Each case study highlights unique challenges, innovative solutions, and impactful outcomes, providing insight into the strategies that communities, organizations, and governments have implemented to protect lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems.

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Africa Madagascar
Anticipatory action for drought in Southern Madagascar: Calibrating trigger systems with historical impact data
FAO combined historic losses and damages with forecasts, drought indicators, and vulnerability data to refine Madagascar’s drought triggers, enabling earlier, better‑targeted action that protected livelihoods.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Africa
Using El Niño impact analysis to inform policy, early action and risk-informed planning in Southern Africa
FAO combined forecasts, market data, drought indicators, and historic agricultural losses and damages to map El Niño drought risk, enabling earlier, targeted action that protected food security across Southern Africa.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Indonesia
Climate insurance for smallholder farmers in Indonesia: case study
This case study aims to enhance the resilience of rice and maize smallholder farmers in three provinces of Indonesia against drought and excess rainfall by offering index-based insurance, off taking, and inputs, complemented by advisory services.
  • InsuResilience Solutions Fund
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan’s journey to a disaster damage and loss assessment system: Institutionalizing the national methodology for damage and loss assessment (DLA) in agriculture and eDLA software
Kyrgyzstan adopted a unified Damage and Loss Assessment methodology to standardize agricultural loss data, improving impact reporting, comparability, and its use in planning, resilience efforts, and Sendai Framework reporting
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Lebanon
Leveraging agricultural loss and damage data for post-conflict recovery: FAO’s 2023–2024 assessment in Lebanon
Lebanon used agricultural losses and damages data to map conflict impacts, target recovery to the hardest‑hit districts, and design a needs‑based reconstruction plan, showing how solid losses data drives resilient recovery.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Ethiopia
Enhancing resilience in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains through community-led ecosystem-based adaptation
This case study explores the RELIVES project, implemented by ORDA Ethiopia and CARE Ethiopia, and how it supported community resilience through locally led adaptation approaches.
  • Climate and Development Knowledge Network
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Mozambique
Advancing gender equity and climate resilience through baobab fruit value chains
This case study explores how the commercialisation of baobab fruit in northern Mozambique is creating new opportunities for rural women while strengthening climate resilience.
  • Climate and Development Knowledge Network
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Uganda
Integration of city-centric approaches into national policy processes: Kampala’s case
This case study examines how Kampala, Uganda's capital, is integrating city-centric approaches into national policy to manage climate-related human mobility
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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