Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

This publication captures and shares the process, tools, and lessons from a pilot adaptation project in the Cook Islands. The basic idea was to field-test a participatory approach that incorporates local knowledge and engages vulnerable communities in the

'Capturing and disseminating...indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction may be very helpful for the communities prone to disasters. These are the people who have the history of survival for hundreds of years', writes M. Mizanur Rahman...

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This document identifies what is considered to be the core requirements for Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) as a whole. This includes: (i) Effective CMDRR involves a change of mindset; (ii) Effective CMDRR is linked

This technical brief focuses on approaches and practices used among communities that support dialogue and negotiation as pre-requisite for creating disaster-resilient communities in Africa. Such practices include the reciprocal resource agreements that

'Whether it is for tsunamis, drought, hunger, floods, there is need for early warnings to prepare people, something only possible with sound information and environmental policies,' said Juliana Rotich at the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi...

'We believe that African traditional ecological knowledge is the foundation for appropriate and effective national adaptation policies,' said Nigel Crawhall, the Director of Secretariat for the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)...

Older people's experiences of disasters and their knowledge of coping mechanisms can be essential when developing local disaster risk reduction and adaptation plans...

Daniel Daniel T'seleie of the Dene nation, one of the activists from Northern Canada in Durban, told the CBC that indigenous knowledge needs to be used when working on climate change adaptation...