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A comprehensive approach to development can help build climate change resilience and adaptive capacity:

This datasheet assesses the countries' resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change impacts, and highlights the objectives carried by the

This UN Secretary-General report presents information on progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals through a comprehensive review of successes, best practices and lessons learned, obstacles and gaps, and challenges and opportunities

WHO and UNICEF have developed this report to raise awareness about the magnitude, risk factors and impacts of child injuries globally, to draw attention to the preventability of the problem and present what is known about the effectiveness of intervention

To reduce the number of deaths and injuries, the government has teamed up with NGOs to launch pilot programmes in the southern provinces, where children are taught how to swim and cope during the annual floods...

Climate change can significantly reverse the progress towards poverty reduction and food security in Africa, according to a paper presented to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) regional Conference for Africa being held in Luanda, Angola this week...

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the vulnerability, impact and adaptation of African agriculture and natural resources to climate change. It presents a summary of the key issues and challenges that climate change will bring to African

This evaluation looks at the contribution of Finland to 'natural' disaster prevention and mitigation, particularly from the perspective of the poor and the vulnerable. It considers a wide range of other relevant sectors and how the consequences of

'Today's Executive Order directs CAL FIRE to immediately mobilize additional personnel and equipment, meaning more firefighters, more engines, more helicopters and more planes. We will not be caught off-guard or under-equipped. When Mother Nature strikes, we will be ready,' said Governor Schwarzenegger...