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This reports presents the updates from April to June 2015 of the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative. R4 refers to the four risk management strategies integrated to strengthen farmers’ food and income security. This quarter marked the beginning of the R4

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This publication critically examines urban policies and projects from the perspective of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, urban resiliency, inclusive cities, and the impacts of the informal economy.
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This publication aims to shed some light on women’s capabilities to take leading roles in building disaster resilience. It features women as drivers of change in different socio-economic contexts, and under various gender conditions.

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This publication discusses problems concerning water and sanitation, including various issues within the framework of water resources management, such as flood control, preservation of the water environment, and improvement of sanitation and hygiene. The

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This report is based on initial research into the use of long-term (5-40 year) climate information in Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia and the coastal cities of Accra, Ghana and Maputo, Mozambique to achieve long-term development objectives in sub-Saharan Africa

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This report provides an assessment of the achievements and progress made in disaster risk reduction (DRR) by Zambia during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR).
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This working paper addresses the funding that has been mobilized by developed countries to meet commitments to provide scaled-up finance to developing countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It analyzes adaptation finance

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This study analyzes the range of plausible impacts of climate change by the year 2050, focusing almost entirely on crops. It builds on previous research that focused on regional and global effects of climate change. The first chapter provides a regional

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