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The Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources in partnership with UNOPS Kenya office has designed a project aimed at climate change adaptation and sustainable use of natural resources in rural areas of Kenya through the eco-village model. Climate change is one the greatest challenges facing the world today and Kenya is already experienc…
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To ensure the overall success of the Federation's drought programme, while working closely with Ethiopia Red Cross Society as well as involved PNSs, in order for them to reach their Health programme objectives, within the joint framework and structural set up of ERCS/IFRC drought programme in Ethiopia.
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To maximise the effectiveness of Red Cross and Red Crescent WatSan initiatives in the region under an integrated community risk management approach by providing technical support services to National Societies and PNS implementing WatSan programmes, either in country or remotely administered from Nairobi. Special emphasis will be pl…
This article seeks to establish the role of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in climate governance in pursuit of sustainable development in rural Zimbabwe. Rural communities in the developing world suffer the most from the negative effects of climate change. As such, their success in combating the effects of climate change is through establishing cult…
This case study discusses how conjunctive management should be implemented in Pakistan's mega-irrigation systems in the Punjab and Sindh provinces and attempts to move toward conjunctive management. Some conjunctive management is already happening in the country, but there is much to gain by integrating management of surface and groundwater in mega-irri…
This paper addresses a need for a paradigm shift towards more proactive and adaptive drought management across South-East Asia. The report provides the evidence base for these interventions, including the recently adopted ASEAN Declaration on the Strengthening of Adaptation to Drought.
The report presents three policy tracks: i) reduce and prevent; ii)…
This report takes a deeper look at the drought and saltwater intrusion (SWI) crisis faced by Vietnam from 2015-2016, identifies the gaps across key sectors, and recommends the principal short and longer-term actions needed for integrated disaster risk management. The recommendations are based on global experiences in good governance with intersectoral c…
The reports finds that water scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, could hinder economic growth, spur migration, and spark conflict. Yet, the negative impacts of climate change on water could be neutralized with better policy decisions, with some regions standing to improve their growth rates by up to 6% with better water resource management.
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This book provides a great overview of practical and early examples of actual adaptive actions already taking place across Europe. It provides detailed information on each identified measure: to which sector it belongs, (i.e. water safety, agriculture, cities), specific climate effects adapted to, length of the project and costs and benefits, including…
This technical report presents a regional study conducted to understand the labour migration process in communities affected by water hazards, such as floods, flash floods, droughts and water shortages, in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. It highlights some major findings as well as recommendations to support labour migration as a strategy to over…
This document describes FAO-Adapt, an organization-wide framework programme that provides general guidance and introduces principles as well as priority themes, actions and implementation support to FAO’s activities for climate change adaptation. The document consists of five main sections. Chapter 1 introduces the background and context of FAO-Adapt. C…
This publication is part of an effort to raise awareness of the economic aspects of desertification, land degradation and drought, and of the costs and benefits of sustainable land management (SLM). It contains a summary of the discussions and recommendations from the partnership meeting on the assessment of the 'Economics of Desertification, Land Degra…
Series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, Vol. 1
In this volume security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers as well as climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in…
This publication looks at water resources in Mexico which, according to the authors, are threatened by scarcity, pollution and climate change. In two decades water consumption has doubled, producing water stress in dry seasons and semi-arid and arid regions. In seven parts a multidisciplinary team has analyzed hydrological processes in basins and their…
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The Advanced Centre for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction (ACEDRR) has supported practitioners to engage in a number of research studies on specific aspects of disaster risk reduction.
This third issue focuses on rainfed farmers in the south of India who are suffering because of the rapid change of long-steady rainfall patterns. The…