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This handbook provides a baseline of understanding of factors that influence disaster management within Mongolia. It is intended to help inform persons who are planning or executing a disaster response mission in the country.
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Documents and publications
This study provides a review of infectious disease risk financing schemes to draw lessons and recommend solutions for the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) member countries.
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Policies and plans
The Beijing Declaration is the outcome of the Belt and Road Ministerial Forum for International Cooperation in Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management. 
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UN-Habitat has implemented the Flood Resilience Building in Ulaanbaatar Ger Areas since 2019, funded by the Adaptation Fund, not only as an adaptation project but also as one to lends ‘voice’ to the priorities of the high-risk communities and vulnerable residents.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - Headquarters
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Documents and publications
This article examines the effects of extreme weather events on internal migration in Mongolia. Our focus is on dzuds, extremely harsh winters characterized by very cold temperature, snowfall anomalies, and/or storms causing very high livestock mortality.
Documents and publications

This profile is intended to serve as public goods to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected changes in key climate parameters, sector-specific

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A combination of extreme weather, climate change and environmental degradation have created a series of eight cross-border sandstorms through March, April and May.
NPR
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China has offered to help Mongolia address environmental problems after the two countries were hit by heavy dust storms this spring.
South China Morning Post

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