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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsThis study analyses international financial flows to nine countries for the 18 months after recent crises—drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake, and epidemic. It complements the Centre’s analysis of funding flows to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring similarities and differences for funding flows for natural hazards. International funding of…
Climate and society no.3:
This issue highlights recent advances in the use of climate information to manage risks and improve livelihoods, such as new partnerships and user-designed information platforms. It draws together and analyses experiences from 17 case studies that capture the current state of knowledge. It also highlights research innovations…
COVID-19 has emerged as a huge shock that will affect all public social systems directly and indirectly. This report synthesises the findings from a series of rapid situation analyses on the initial response to COVID-19 in the first few months of the outbreak – March to May 2020 – in five countries: Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.…
Large health shocks such as COVID-19 carry an expensive price tag – for the response, the recovery, as well as more long-term economic losses. The response phase is typically characterised by a great sense of urgency as the public financial management (PFM) system attempts to provide funding quickly in order to curb the outbreak early. However, in many…
Climate and Development, volume 7, issue 3, 2015, doi:10.1080/17565529.2014.951012:
This study examines a Red Cross Red Crescent pilot project in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Indonesia that incorporated climate information and considerations in health operations.
The investigation looks at three elements of programming: baseline community perceptions…