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'The threat of climate change in India is real and adapting to the fast-changing weather will be key to fighting global warming. For that, administrators at the ground level need to know about its threats and ways it can be dealt with in a cost-effective manner,' warns a recent study conducted by the Indian Environment Ministry...

'Women suffer problems finding water, due to the disappearance of snow and ice on the mountaintops and to drought, or they lose their crops to severe frost and floods,' said Elena Villanueva, with the Rural Development Programme of the Flora Tristán Centre, a local women's group...

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El estudio, efectuado un año después del terremoto a lo largo de Chile, consistió en una encuesta a dirigentes comunitarios y funcionarios municipales, en la que evaluaron las capacidades institucionales para reducir los daños provocados por

This global guide to advocacy for disaster risk reduction (DRR) aims to strengthen the skills, knowledge and proficiency of practitioners in advocating on DRR approaches to decision-makers, donors and policy-makers. It is designed to help IFRC National

Community-based adaptation in Morocco has proven to engage inhabitants of remote and vulnerable villages to take steps toward sustaining and improving their livelihoods while enhancing resilience to climate change. The inclusion of women and community-based organizations has been essential in both of these projects and their sustainability...

A report on SEEDS Asia's ‘Reaching the Unreachable: Disaster Risk Reduction Education Project', that teaches life saving techniques to people living in cyclone, earthquake and flood affected areas - and transfers local knowledge. Local participants of the workshop learned about safe building structures and climate change...

This documents presents the recommendations elaborated during the Round Table on The Value Added of Women in Civil Protection organised with the support of Algerian Civil Protection in Algiers on 26 March 2012. The document includes Round Table

'We are working with governments and civic organisations to push for the inclusion of gender sensitive strategies to adapt to climate change in the protocol to protect vulnerable groups,' said Gender Links Chief Executive Officer Lowe Morna...