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A new framework to support the national and local capacity building plan for disaster risk management (DRM) in Cameroon is presented. For the past 30 years, after the general re-organisation of the civil protection department, capacity building programmes

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Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, while its people also suffer from a range of environmental hazards linked to the growing prevalence of non-communicable diseases. These diseases are responsible for increasing morbidity

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Many African countries are prone to numerous hazardous events, exacerbated by the vulnerability of their rapidly increasing population and leading to frequent disasters that often have dire fiscal and development implications. Yet, there is declining

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Armed conflict in Cameroon has forced thousands of farmers off their land, leaving crops unprotected from extreme weather and pests while increasing food insecurity.
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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Thanks to the ‘Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient’ initiative, Yaoundé Six, Cameroon, has developed a disaster risk reduction action plan to enhance living conditions in its informal settlements.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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The people of Lake Chad are caught in a conflict trap. Violent conflict between state security forces and armed opposition groups, poor governance, endemic corruption, serious environmental mismanagement and poverty have ruined the lives of local people

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Flood risks continue to pose serious threats to developing countries with dire ramifications for livelihoods. Yet, contemporary research on determinants for coping with flood hazards is driven mostly by individual cases with less effort to systematically

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Beyond building capacity and strengthening stakeholder relationships, FAO and partners have helped the cassava and potato value chains in Africa by unlocking access to credit, savings, insurance and tailored climate risk management tools. Farmers have also received financial literacy and business management sessions.
InsuResilience Global Partnership

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