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Displaying 15 of about 63 resultsThe ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER), a legally binding regional agreement, was signed in 2005 and ratified on 24 December 2009 to address concerns of vulnerability to natural disasters which are increasing in intensity and frequency, and to guide the regional cooperation in the field of disaster management and resp…
Capacity strengthening of civil society organisations (CSOs) for a strong advocacy/policy dialogue role with decision makers, takes centre stage in Partners for Resilience (PfR). Because the core business of PfR is engaging stakeholders in developing and implementing policies, practices and investments that integrate Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and…
This paper examines disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, and outbreak response in Eastern and Southern Africa. The report assesses the five-year action plan for the Africa CDC strengthening regional public health institutions and capacity for surveillance and response program. The mounting human and economic toll of COVID-19 has brought th…
This project aims to improve understanding of fire and atmosphere interactions and feedback processes through running the coupled fire-atmosphere model ACCESS-Fire. Project deliverables include: preparation of meteorological and simulation case studies of significant fire events as publications; installation and testing of the ACCESS-Fire coupled model…
This paper examines a generic physical vulnerability model for floods by reviewing and conceptualizing for data-scarce regions. The use of different methods for physical flood vulnerability assessment has evolved over time, from traditional single-parameter stage–damage curves to multi-parameter approaches such as multivariate or indicator-based models.…
This training was designed primarily for city officials who are involved in collecting, analyzing or presenting M&E data—both for indicators within a climate change action plan, as well as other city projects. The training objectives included participants being able to:
Apply M&E methods and principles to climate change action plan activities…
This paper presents the ‘Kin Dee You Dee’ (Thai for ‘Eat well, live well’) toolkit, which comprises three sets of serious games aimed at facilitating discussions and transformative learning on resilience to urban low-income communities. The first stage of the toolkit creates awareness of key concepts related to resilience, the second stage allows partic…
This hazard note presents how remote Indigenous communities in northern Australia are frequently affected by natural hazards but do not have the same access to services as other areas. There is a strong need to develop effective partnerships with emergency management agencies that can help Indigenous communities build emergency management…
Climate change has significant impacts on health both directly, such as injury and death from extreme weather events, or heat illnesses from temperature increases, and indirectly, including malnutrition, increased spread of vector-borne diseases, and impacts on mental health. As part of the response to the threats posed by climate change across all sect…
This report is commissioned by Care International for the Zimbabwe Disaster Rapid Response Mechanism (ZDRRM) project in line with international best practices. The purpose of this survey as presented in the Terms of reference was to establish project achievements against the project benchmarks, assess the effectiveness and appropriateness of the project…
This policy brief presents a variety of options for mainstreaming climate finance into the planning and budgeting process of Nepal. The publication identifies climate policy provisions, planning and budgeting, needs estimations, expenditure tracking as well as gender and poverty in a climate context.
The CARE for South Asia project is implemented by AD…
The Guidelines aim to guide adaptation practitioners at national and local levels on how to take different steps when factoring ecosystems functions and services into countries’ NAP processes and instruments. The Guidelines detail the multiple benefits as well as the challenges of adopting ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation; what in…
This publication reviews a project aimed at supporting the immediate life-saving basic needs of 3,667 Cambodian households through the provision of unconditional cash transfers, improved access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene practices, as well as reestablishing a decent, clean, and safe learning environment for boys and girls…
This paper discusses how resilience is widely seen as an important attribute of coastal systems and, as a concept, is increasingly prominent in policy documents. However, there are conflicting ideas on what constitutes resilience and its operationalisation as an overarching principle of coastal management remains limited. In this paper, it shows how res…
This report discusses how community-led approaches to disaster recovery are regarded as the optimal approach to sustainable disaster recovery, fostering self-reliance and self-determination within affected communities (Dibley, Mitchell, Ireton, Gordon, & Goron, 2019; Olshansky, 2005). However, as noted by Dibley et al. (2019), “[w]hat is less clear…