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Governance

The institutional structures and processes that drive decision-making and management of DRR programs at regional, national and local level. This theme also includes institutions, legislations, policies and coordination mechanisms such as regional and national platforms.

UN Member States are exploring a legally binding instrument to better protect people before, during, and after disasters.

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Climate adaptation in Asia: knowledge gaps and research issues in China, final report to IDRC and DFID

Full report of the China team

This is a summary of a report on climate change adaptation research knowledge and capacity gaps in China, commissioned by DFID (UK) and IDRC (Canada) to consider support for a programme of applied research on climate

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition - International (ISET)
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy
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From research to capacity, policy and action: enabling adaptation to climate change for poor populations in Asia through research, capacity building and innovation

Report From the adaptation study team to IDRC

The purpose of this report is to present the results from a strategic gap analysis the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) and other members of the Adaptation Study Team have undertaken

Institute for Social and Environmental Transition - International (ISET)
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Forests and floods: drowning in fiction or thriving on facts?

RAP publication 2005/03: forests perspectives 2

This booklet aims to separate fact from fiction on issues related to forests and water and to dispel some of the commonly held misconceptions about the role of forests in flood mitigation. It does not

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Center for International Forestry Research
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3rd African Drought Adaptation Forum report, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17-19 September 2008

This report is a summary of the discussions held during the 3rd African Drought Adaptation Forum September 2008 in Addis Ababa. The participants, members of the the African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) recognized the need for exchange of

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
UN Economic Commission for Africa
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Chad: Experts validate climate change adaptation plan

In a bid to cope with the challenges of climate change, the National Adaptation Programme of Action to Climate Change (NAPA) was validated after a two-day workshop which brought together Chadian experts ...

African Press Agency
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Climate change alert for Bahrain

According to World Meteorological Organisation, West Asia representative, Jaser Rabadi, Bahrain and the surrounding region could be plagued by natural disasters never faced before....

Gulf Daily News, Al Hilal Group
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Uganda to form disaster management centre following increased risks

'We really have to wake up now, survival is at its most given the past experience. We really have to be prepared than we have been before' said Tarsis Kabwegyere, Minister of disaster preparedness and refugees...

Xinhua News Agency
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Natural disasters, the role of parliaments in prevention, rehabilitation, reconstruction and the protection of vulnerable groups

Resolution of the 113th IPU Assembly (Geneva, 19 October 2005)

This resolution was adopted by 550 parliamentarians from 130 countries at the 113th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), held in Geneva from 17 to 19 October 2005, to consider the

Inter-Parliamentary Union
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