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This report aims to help fill a gap in knowledge on the effectiveness of national laws, policies and institutional frameworks in supporting gender equality in disaster risk management (DRM) and in preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based

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This research paper uses statistical meta-analysis to summarise the results of all 16 Effectiveness Reviews carried out under the theme of resilience between 2011 and 2015. Oxfam’s Effectiveness Reviews evaluate the impact of the organization’s projects

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This learning brief aims to help practitioners understand where and how to apply market systems development (MSD) approaches to resilience-building in fragile contexts. It assesses the relationship between the MSD and resilience models in three MSD

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This paper presents a conceptual framework for the study of the vulnerability of Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal with a particular focus on the structural vulnerability.

Three kinds of vulnerability have been considered for each country: economic, climatic

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This working paper presents a set of five critical factors for increasing the climate resilience of water infrastructure. It is based on a review of six CDKN funded projects across Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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This report looks across 10 CDKN initiatives that worked at multiple scales, some focusing initially on local-level piloting, and then scaling up and out, others focusing from the outset on innovation at multiple levels of governance. It analyses these 10

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Taking into account the tremendous role of women in mountains towards climate change adaptation measures, opportunities and challenges, the main finding of the paper it that it is important to initiate and ensure gender-responsive climate financing

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This report describes the approach and efforts taken to build resilience to the impacts of climate change and disasters within the BRACED project. The report evaluates resilience-building activities that have been undertaken thus far, such as natural

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