Benin

This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the

This calendar has been developed to help better prepare for food-related emergencies. It works by combining the most authoritative data on seasonal hazards like floods, droughts, pests and cyclones with information about crop cycles and weather patterns.

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 provides broad generic steps for mainstreaming environment and drylands issues into national development frameworks, as well lessons drawn from various countries on environment and drylands mainstreaming. It demonstrates that by prioritizing

This assessment is aimed to identify the structural causes of the floods and develop medium and long term effective flood-reduction strategies, focusing mainly on the areas of agriculture, food security, nonagricultural livelihoods, and urban environment.

Areas in south Benin which are often covered by water, including lagoonal waters and estuaries, swamps, freshwater lakes and reservoirs, and flood plain which is regularly and seaonally inundated. These inundated areas are derived from Mapstore (Russian

in French:

Ce document est un rapport de synthèse du séminaire régional organisé, à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) du 06 au 10 avril 2009, dont l’objectif est une maîtrise des méthodologies et outils d’intégration des changements climatiques dans les

In English

It is generally acknowledged that, in Africa, poverty, the lack of development, high population density, environmental degradation, diseases, poor governance, wars, conflicts, violence and other such threats are underlying factors that