Linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk management for sustainable poverty reduction: synthesis report
This report has been produced as part of the project ‘Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Poverty Reduction’, funded by the European Commission onbehalf of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group (VARG). VARG is an informal network of bi- and multilateral institutions aiming to facilitate the integration of adaptation to climate variability and change into development processes through sharing of information and experiences. The report based on the findings of a series of country studies conducted early in 2006 in Kenya, México and Vietnam, and subsequent discussions during an international VARG workshop in Geneva, Switzerland in October 2006 hosted by United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and sponsored by DFID, DGIS, GTZ, OECD and SIDA.