Ethiopia

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This paper argues that a human rights-based approach (HRBA), i.e. participation in political life, consultation of affected groups in decision-making processes, access to justice, due process, transparency and accountability, provides excellent tools towards a real positive change in disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and mitigation. The publication analyses case studies in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia and Nepal.
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This working paper documents Ethiopia's lessons from the study ‘Lessons from national climate compatible development planning', which aimed to capture and share institutional experiences of climate-compatible development.
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This report on El Niño and La Niña calls for better preparedness, resilience building and global mobilisation to address climate change.  According to the report, El Niño is a modern day tragedy, which was preventable.

The publication offers several

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This document presents a project which aims at improving the knowledge of the distribution of building type for 18 countries where more detailed information, than that previously gathered, became available. Secondly, the project attempts to solve the

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This edition of Knowledge Matters explores Concern's Disaster Risk Reduction work across several countries.

The report provides insights and recommendations on:

  • preparedness;
  • risk analysis;
  • engineering;
  • gender;
  • documentation;
  • early warning;
  • comm
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This study identifies and documents existing climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices in Ethiopia that enable stakeholders to understand the opportunities and constraints to adopting particular CSA technologies or practices. It introduces the

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This study assessed the status of disaster risk management (DRM) education in selected Ethiopian universities, and on how they achieve their objectives strategically through undertaking inter-disciplinary policy and applied DRR research; and creating a

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This paper explains how and why improved water management on the farm matters for women and girls, and what can be done to better support opportunities for them, as well as for men and boys, in the face of climate change. It consolidates existing academic

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