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A glance at urban interventions by Red Cross Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean:

This publication was developed in an effort to complement and inform the internal process of defining urban intervention strategies in the Americas in order to

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This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in Central America and Mexico, covering the following eight countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, as well as Mexico. The review first

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This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

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En este trabajo se analiza el estado de riesgo de la cabecera municipal de Quezalguaque, a través del estudio particular de sus amenazas y vulnerabilidades. Para esta evaluación de riesgo se hace uso de la aplicación metodológica del Software Sistema de

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This case study reports on a project intended to build disaster risk reduction capacity in communities and amongst the Centre for Promotion, Research and Rural and Social Development (CIPRES) staff. It provides: (i) a background to the livelihoods project

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This case study focuses on the good practices and innovative elements of a project to address food insecurity among two communities vulnerable to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change in north-eastern Nicaragua. It presents: (i) the context of

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Study for the harmonization of knowledge and experience from the indigenous/local, technical and scientific spheres for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change (CC) programming:

The aim of the study is to visualize the current situation on the

Policies and plans

El  plan nacional de respuesta del SINAPRED  es una publicación de la Secretaría Ejecutiva del Sistema Nacional para la Prevención, Mitigación y Atención de Desastres. El objeto de la Ley creadora del Sistema Nacional para la Prevención, Mitigación y

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