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2024 – The impacts of WFP’s integrated climate risk management approach on farmers’ resilience to climate change

This study shows how WFP’s R4 Rural Resilience Initiative helps farmers manage climate and disaster risks based on evidence gathered from five countries that implement an Integrated Climate Risk Management approach.
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Using disaster risk financing to build adaptive social protection for climate shocks in Malawi: Social support for resilient livelihoods

This note summarizes the government’s process for establishing this mechanism and presents key results and lessons learned.
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.
Flooded street and house in Eastern South Africa
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Impacts and lessons from tropical cyclone Freddy

An assessment undertaken by the AUC jointly with the SADC and UNDP on the impact of Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi, identified important lessons for recovery.
African Union
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UK aid cuts leave Malawi vulnerable to droughts and cyclones

After the UK cut short a £52m climate adaptation scheme in Malawi, vulnerable communities saw their livelihoods destroyed by Cyclone Freddy.
Climate Home News
Cover and source: African Climate Foundation
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From climate risk to resilience: Unpacking the economic impacts of climate change in Malawi

This report forms part of “From Climate Risk to Resilience,” a series of country studies that analyze and explore the potential economic and social impacts of climate change on Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.
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Using disaster risk financing to build adaptive social protection for climate shocks in Malawi - Social support for resilient livelihoods

This note summarizes the Governemnt of Malawi's (GoM’s) process for establishing a risk insurance mechanism and presents key results and lessons learned.
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Malawi takes bold steps to combat cholera through multisectoral strategy

Malawi is the first country in Africa to utilize the recently updated Global Task Force for Cholera Control tool to identify priority areas for multi-sectoral interventions (PAMIs, also called hotspots) for cholera control.
World Health Organization (WHO)

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