Latest additions to the knowledge base

After observing the various ways in which success was achieved by Alliance teams around the world, the organisation has identified some common threads, helping other actors conduct successful advocacy in their own particular context.

Adapting to climate change is a daunting task, but the “how” is not a mystery. Around the world we are seeing effective retrofitting of cities to adapt to more extreme weather.

The “Disaster Risk Insurance and Finance in Central America Consortium” (DRIFCA) identifies and supports climate-related agricultural insurance solutions for up to 2 million smallholder farmers to increase their food security and financial resilience.

This case study seeks to analyse and document the contributions of the PDNA and DRF to post-disaster recovery in El Salvador, including its ability to be adapted through the CRNA and other tools to the El Salvador context.

This briefing note explores the strategy of Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in urban environments. It includes two case studies from Thailand and a project in Latin America and the Caribbean.

IDMC, with support from the Robert Bosch Foundation, is documenting successful practices to address displacement in the context of climate change. On International Women’s Day, the focus lies on interventions tackling the issue in a gender-sensitive way.

In the Dry Corridor of Central America, persistent drought—interrupted by violent storms that do further damage to crops—is driving farmers from land they’ve cultivated for generations.

This technical note explores drought situations and policies in Spain (including the Canary Islands), Chile, Mexico, the dry corridor between Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Brazil, and South Africa.