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This flyer summarises two reports on MSME resilience commissioned by GIZ. It outlines the two project components, such as objective and methodology and summarises the results and key findings of both.
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The increasing threat of climate change highlights the importance of reusable, efficient energy sources and power grid resilience. The emerging technology of microgrids offers a competitive, practical, and decentralized option.
Climatelinks
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
A man working on an irrigation canal, in an oasis in the Sahara, Morocco.
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Blessed with fertile lands, the Saïss Plain in the Fès-Meknès region of Morocco, is one of the country’s most productive agricultural centers.
Green Climate Fund
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L’urbanisation continue de transformer en profondeur la société marocaine et son économie. Aujourd’hui, 60% des Marocains résident déjà dans les zones urbaines, contre seulement 35% en 1970. En raison de la poursuite de l’exode rural et de l’étalement

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In Morocco, the effects of natural hazards alone, covering floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and droughts, are estimated to cost an average US$800 million a year.
World Bank, the
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Morocco now has an edge in terms of looking at how to address other crisis risks, including those caused by epidemics and climate change.
World Bank, the
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She hopes this research will provide answers to historical inquiries, as well as reveal answers to current issues regarding global climate change.
The University of New Mexico
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Low and middle-income countries are bearing an increasing financial burden from the impacts of disasters as both the frequency and intensity of disaster events are rising. Despite the increasing availability of disaster data, many countries lack the


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