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Governance

The institutional structures and processes that drive decision-making and management of DRR programs at regional, national and local level. This theme also includes institutions, legislations, policies and coordination mechanisms such as regional and national platforms.

Latest Governance additions in the Knowledge Base

Traditional bolivian woman in traditional dress, walking trought the Sun island in lake Titicaca, Bolivia
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Rethinking premium support for climate protection

Compared to other forms of support, premium support directly reduces the price of insurance and has the potential to provide a more direct route to financial protection. However, the current approach has yet to deliver sustainable impact.
Centre for Disaster Protection
Cover and source: Centre for Disaster Protection
Documents and publications

Rethinking premium support: Enhancing the impact and sustainability of climate risk insurance

This insight paper aims to support policymakers and practitioners as they seek to scale up financial protection against climate-related shocks through sovereign insurance solutions.
Schoolchildren in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 2023
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Empowering Central Asia’s next generation with safer, disaster-resilient schools

Five Central Asian nations – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – reaffirmed their commitment to safe and resilient schools for children this week – with four endorsing the Comprehensive Safe Schools Framework.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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Developing Turkmenistan’s first ever national strategy for the prevention and management of wheat rust diseases

The main objectives of the nation strategy and contingency plan are aligned with those of the Turkmenistan's agricultural goal to improve the sustainability of wheat production and resilience of agriculture in the country.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
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Enhancing community resilience: Addressing compound and cascading climate shocks

Complex risk necessitates a shift in how development actors approach international development and climate resilience programs and policies, particularly by integrating comprehensive risk frameworks that account for interdependencies in critical systems.
Climatelinks
Indian farmer working in a field in front of a water sprinkler
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United in Science 2024: Reboot climate action

United in Science 2024 is the latest in a series of multi-organization compilations of the weather, climate, water and related environmental and social sciences for the future.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Cover and source: World Meteorological Organization
Documents and publications

United in science 2024

A multi-organization high-level compilation of the latest weather, climate, water and related environmental and social sciences for the future.
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Disenfranchised by climate change

Climate change threatens the exercise of the right to vote by making it harder for people to register to vote, to get to the polls, and to have their ballots counted.
Climate Central
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