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Kwazulu Natal floods, 2022
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Chad’s economic recovery: navigating challenges and building resilience to floods?

Chad’s GDP growth was modest due to the impact of floods and a volatile security environment, which hindered the expected recovery.
World Bank, the
Young woman and a child sitting at a market in Mauritania
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10 countries at risk of climate disaster

This article presents 10 countries researchers have identified as most at risk of climate disaster. The IRC and WRI analyzed where climate crises are likely to occur and whether affected countries have the capacity to respond in vulnerable communities.
International Rescue Committee
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Documents and publications

Strengthening anticipatory risk response and financing mechanisms for social protection: A practical approach to tackling loss and damage

This paper explains how best to equip social protection programmes to help communities better absorb the effects of climate risks, adapt to climate impacts and transform their capacities to address growing climate stresses.
Woman walking through the flooded street in Nigeria with a yellow rain cape.
Research briefs

Climate change exacerbated heavy rainfall leading to large scale flooding in highly vulnerable communities in West Africa

From May until October 2022, large parts of West Africa experienced large-scale flooding caused by above average seasonal rainfall and water management.
World Weather Attribution
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Documents and publications

Disaster risk reduction in West Africa and the Sahelian region: a review of progress

This report is an assessment of progress at the regional level and in West Africa against the ‘African Union Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 in Africa’.
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The journey of Chad’s National Adaptation Plan

Chad launched its NAP process at the same time as the revision of its nationally determined contribution (NDC) in 2021. Both climate plans play an integral part in the country’s overall development.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Cover of the NAP: farmer holding crops; camels in a canyon river
Policies and plans

First national climate change adaptation plan of Chad

The National Adaptation Plan process provides an opportunity to undertake adaptation planning in Chad in a dynamic way, coherent to the country’s medium- and long-term needs, including identifying and addressing key challenges to effective adaptation.
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Le changement climatique, l'insécurité alimentaire et la migration au Tchad: un lien complexe

Ce rapport identifie des recommandations clés pour atténuer et faciliter la migration adaptative à travers le prisme de la sécurité alimentaire et du changement climatique.

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