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Ensuring an all-of-society engagement and partnership for DRR through empowerment and inclusive, accessible and non-discriminatory participation, paying special attention to people disproportionately affected by disasters, especially the poorest.

Here are five ways countries ensure persons with disabilities are not left behind when the next disaster strikes.

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This manual was created to provide a resource tool for communities to enhance resilience and disaster preparedness. It provides a summary of the EnRiCH project, a description of the framework that informed the design of the intervention, and

University of Ottawa
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International Journal of Global Warming, 2015, volume 8, issue 4, pp. 584-602:

This conceptual paper applies wider mobilities literature to the specific case of low-lying island communities potentially threatened by climate change, demonstrating the

Inderscience Publishers Limited
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This report shows the results of an evaluation of the project “Climate Change in a Secure Environment/ Mudansa Klimatika iha Ambiente Seguru (MAKA’AS)”, set out to facilitate community-based adaptation to climate change amongst 33 villages in Timor-Leste

CARE International
WaterAid
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This technical brief was produced by the USAID Ethiopia Agriculture Knowledge, Learning, Documentation and Policy (AKLDP) project in Ethiopia. The brief considers the impacts of a deep and prolonged La Niña episode of 2011 which resulted in a severe food

Tufts University
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PLOS Currents Disasters, Oct 2014, Edition 1, doi: 10.1371/currents.dis.11381147bd5e89e38e78434a732f17db:

This study addresses the need for empirical research on community level initiatives designed to enhance resilience for high-risk groups, and it

Public Library of Science
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This joint report between CARE, ActionAid and WWF explains the current reality of loss and damage and outlines recommendations to ensure that the international community’s response to climate change in the 21st century can adequately address loss and

World Wide Fund For Nature
ActionAid International
CARE International
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The outcome of the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Paris from November 30th to December 11th 2015, has reinforced the reasons why women must be at the heart of decisions and mobilization to advance climate justice. This week AWID looks at some of the challenges and opportunities of integrating women into these processes...

Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
Association For Women's Rights in Development
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Drawing from research in rural north-western Benin, this policy brief looks at the effect of migration on the in-land fisheries subsector and emphasises the need for effective participation of all stakeholders in the management of natural resources to

International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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