Malawi

This publication reports on a community-based cost benefit analysis of a disaster risk reduction (DRR) and food security programme in a Malawian agricultural community. The aim of this study is to assess programme activities for their cost-effectiveness

This report outlines lessons learnt regarding the principal effects of climate change on 15 cities in low-income countries, and what makes them vulnerable to these effects. Coastal cities are susceptible to a rise in sea level and are made vulnerable by

This document presents the objectives of ActionAid’s five-year Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) through Schools project (2006-11) aiming to: (i) support the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action through innovative, grassroots DRR programmes; (ii)

Measuring economic risks of droughts and floods:

This study is intended to assist the Governments of Malawi and Mozambique in determining the extent of their economic vulnerability to climate variability and in assessing the systematic economic risks

The report outlines lessons learned from various countries delivering on poverty-environment efforts, the evolution of the PEI programmatic approach at the country level, and technical support provided in specific areas, such as the long-term impacts of

This publications focuses on 20 core countries with high vulnerability to natural hazards and low economic resilience to cope with disaster impacts including anticipated climate change and variability: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti

This paper approaches the challenges of climate change from the point of view of its impact on hunger and nutrition. It presents the sophisticated early warning and vulnerability analysis tools that WFP uses and shares to predict and map the risk of

IFPRI discussion paper 00962:

This study estimates impacts from and identifies policy responses to extreme climate events, especially the economywide impacts of abnormal hydrometeorological events (droughts and floods-related crop production losses in