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South-Eastern Europe regional synthesis: Climate change, displacement and the right to education

This regional synthesis report identifies common and divergent patterns of climate displacement as well as barriers to education for climate displaced persons in several countries in South-Eastern Europe.
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Chisinau disaster resilience and public health system resilience assessment report: Disaster resilience scorecard assessment results

Chisinau municipality is the first city in the Republic of Moldova to join the UNDRR flagship initiative – Making Cities Resilient 2030 and the first city to use the Preliminary Disaster  Resilience Scorecard for Cities and the Public Health Addendum.
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Investing in climate and disaster resilience to help Moldova’s at-risk communities weather the next shock

Over the past decade alone, floods and droughts in Moldova have caused more than US$1.2 billion in damages with climate change threatening to worsen these losses further.
World Bank, the
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Strengthening Moldova’s disaster risk management and climate resilience: Facing current issues and future challenges

In this disaster risk management (DRM) country policy note, chapter one provides an overview of Moldova’s disaster and climate risk profile. Chapter two reviews the current institutional and legal framework for disaster risk management and financing

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The impact of COVID-19 on women's and men's lives and livelihoods in Europe and Central Asia: Preliminary results from a Rapid Gender Assessment

In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the relatively limited data available, the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, through the Making Every Woman and Girl Count global programme, developed a rapid survey

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Voices of gender equality mechanisms on COVID-19 (Europe and Central Asia)

In May 2020, UN Women initiated online consultations with gender equality mechanisms from 14 countries (Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

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Six months later: Women at the forefront of COVID-19 response in Europe and Central Asia

This publication provides an overview of key results achieved by UN Women in terms of COVID-19 response and recovery in its programme countries and territories in Europe and Central Asia between March and August 2020.

On 13 March 2020, the World Health

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Disaster risk mitigation in Moldova

The aim of this document was to mitigate growing disaster risk and strengthen resilience through a nation-wide weather network and improved forecasts.

The report is divided into:

  • Problem: Moldova’s varying climate and vulnerability to disasters

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