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This study explores how the two leading approaches in water resources management and ecosystem thinking for climate change adaptation – i.e. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) – can be merged to achieve

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This gender-blind approach means that other aspects that threaten women and girls’ safety and health, such as gender-based violence, can be overlooked.
Conversation Media Group, the
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This publication discusses how community engagement is an approach to the humanitarian response of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It places people affected by disasters, violence, and armed

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Increased volcanic activity and other indicators have experts fretting that another eruption could be on the way.
Thomson Reuters
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In the midst of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and a recent Ebola outbreak in 2021, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) advanced their adaptation planning nonetheless.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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This study documents the channels through which regular flooding in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, impacts transport services, commuters' ability to reach their jobs, and the associated economic opportunity costs from travel delays. This

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Le livret de la Plateforme Nationale de la République Démocratique du Congo (tome 2) est une publication qui retrace l'existence de cette structure de coordination des actions multi sectorielles de préparation et d'interventions pour accompagner les

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Based on a literature review and two case studies, this article presents the difficulties inherent in the main disaster risk reduction conceptual models. The method used to highlight such evidence is to compare two programs on disaster risk reduction with


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