Documents and publications

In the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent Fukushima nuclear meltdown in northern Japan on 11 March 2011, this white paper focuses on the role of joint private and public sector partnership in emergency preparedness and small business

This study includes a comprehensive assessment of the situation of urban climate finance in the three countries of South Africa, Chile and India with a specific focus on the partner cities of the Cities Fit for Climate Change (CFCC) project: eThekwini

This Climate Risk Assessment outlines the Climate Context in country, climate hazards, impacts and vulnerability, policy framework, and presents key recommendations to improve climate change integration in development programming.

This guide provides an overview of the effect of fall armyworm (FAW) infestations in maize crops in Africa, promising management options and the role of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) for integrated pest management.

The first part of the guide summarizes

This audit looked at whether the provincial government of British Columbia (BC), Canada, is adequately managing the risks posed by climate change. This audit presents key findings and recommendations on climate adaptation, mitigation, and the climate

This technical brief describes efforts to develop remote sensing products for index-based flood insurance (IBFI) that can accurately depict yield loss due to adverse weather and other disasters on smallholder farms, with a particular attention to IBFI as

This paper describes the methodology behind the Resilience Performance Scorecard (RPS), which was developed to more holistically measure earthquake resilience, with the aim of improving decision-making and reducing earthquake impacts.

The RPS is a multi

This document is the third in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section focuses on the assessment of cascading risks to create scenarios