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Displaying 15 of about 38 resultsPractical experience and learning from a community-based adaptation project in Bangladesh:
This report communicates the local, practical experiences and learning from an action research project on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (CCA-DRR), aimed at facilitating local people's analysis of their own vulnerability towards climate ch…
Ensuring the next drought will not cause another humanitarian crisis:
This briefing note addresses the need for the fight against hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel to be fought before, during and after crises. It calls for contingency planning to be systematically included into long-term policies and programmes and considers Disaster Risk Reduction…
This publication presents grassroots women's initiatives from five different countries (Czech Republic, India, Kenya, Peru and Russia) providing insights into the participation of local communities in decentralized decision making and local governance, including sustaining grassroots women's leadership in redeveloping families, homes, communities, and e…
Pandangan dari garis depan (Views from the frontline), Hyogo Framework of Action review at local perspectives:
This review is included in the project 'Views from the Frontline' as a follow up initiative of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). It presents a review of the HFA implementation in several regions of Indonesia: Aceh, Nias, Central Jav…
This report describes the use of cost benefit analysis (CBA), an economic tool used to compare the benefits against the costs of a given project or activity. It highlights the use of CBA, which the author emphasizes, can prove particularly beneficial in a disaster/climate risk context. Firstly, CBA may help communities and local partners, as well as gov…
Appeal No. MAA00029
This update is a summary of key achievements of the five individual plans implemented by the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) under its disaster management global programme. The “Disaster management and risk reduction: strategy and coordination” plan focused in particular on moving ahead with cross-sector activities i…
This book addresses disaster preparedness in developing countries as an important contribution to climate change adaptation, asserting that tropical storms and other weather-related extreme events like heavy rainfall and landslides will increase further. It aims to support developing countries, who are expected to suffer more from the consequences of cl…
This document offers a general overview of the 'natural' sudden climate disasters status in the Arab region (with case studies from several countries under consideration), and provides linkage between disaster reduction and natural resources management, land-use planning, climate change adaptation and environmental protection.
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This publication addresses Child centred disaster risk reduction (CCDRR) as a process to strengthen communities resilience. It aims to serve as a reference material about the CCDRR and to present the application of CCDRR in the work process discussion. It contains: (i) an introductory guide to CCDRR and to the Child Centred Community Development (CCCD);…
This publication, prepared in preparation for the Copenhagen UN Conference on Climate Change (2009), includes various national studies about adaptation to climate change. It illustrates the willingness of France to mobilize all actors in society, including scientific, institutions and civil society, in the debate about climate change mitigation and adap…
The purpose of this document is to create a cohesive documented body of knowledge for disaster recovery planners and policy makers, in the recognition that preventive measures are vital to reducing the more costly efforts of responding to disasters. It is an initial step in documenting, collecting and sharing disaster recovery experiences and lessons. I…
DPUnews, issue 52, March 2010:
This issue focuses on cities' adaptation to climate change. It analyses the relationship between cities and climate change and the need to discuss mitigation and adaptation agendas together, for the sake of cities in the global south, that bears the brunt of the problems and who are the most vulnerable to extreme weather…
This report aims to explore the issue of multi-agency coordination and cooperation in disaster response from a non-government organisation (NGO) perspective by assessing the interactions between NGOs, as well as between NGOs and other stakeholders, in terms of preparedness, planning and initial deployment of personnel and resources from the NGO viewpoin…
This document presents the lessons learnt from the implementation of a community based disaster risk management (CBDRM) project working with ethnic minority communities in the upland areas in Viet Nam. It aims to record and disseminate experiences, results, and best practice derived from the project activities. It is intended for government, NGOs, and o…
This document is the consultation version of the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA)'s adaptive capacity framework. It intends to serve as a conceptual tool for research existing disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods programme interventions, as well as for a range of purposes such as mainstreaming, design or evaluation…