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South Sudan: Transforming education with flood-resistant classrooms

A Global Partnership for Education (GPE)-supported program is helping the Ministry of education of South Sudan to build flood-resilient classrooms and strengthen resilience among communities to ensure learning continuity during the flood season.
Global Partnership for Education, the
Cover and source: United States Agency for International Development
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Early warning systems: Rapid assessments from four partner countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Niger, and South Sudan

The rapid assessment in four partner countries evaluated current EWS capabilities and provided recommendations for strengthening these systems to improve Maternal Newborn and Child Health and Family Planning and Reproductive Health outcomes.
Abandoned flooded houses in Bentiu City South Sudan
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South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?

Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected.
Conversation Media Group, the
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South Sudan: enhancing locally-led humanitarian aid through digital tools

With digital tools, community-based organizations can assess vulnerabilities in their communities in advance and prepare relevant programs and interventions to strengthen capacities in their communities, thereby mitigating the effects of disasters.
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South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State strengthens disasters and emergency preparedness and response capabilities

Central Equatoria State in South Sudan is pioneering an initiative to bolster its resilience against potential hazards, through the development of hazard-specific contingency plans at the county level.
World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
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Five African resilience projects have been chosen to receive CDKN financing

Following an open call for locally-led adaptation initiatives last year, CDKN selected five K2A projects from an extremely competitive pool of over 1000 applicants. The selected K2A projects are in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique and South Sudan.
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
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Identifying disaster risk factors and hotspots in Africa from spatiotemporal decadal analyses using INFORM data for risk reduction and sustainable development

This study unveils diverse disaster risk trends and patterns, revealing variations in hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity across African countries by utilizing the INFORM risk model data spanning from 2012 to 2022
Cover and source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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Integrating early warning early action within disaster law in Africa

This case study examines how South Sudan and Malawi are leading the way in incorporating EWEA into their legal and regulatory frameworks to mitigate the impact of disasters specific to their contexts.

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