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During the discussion, some speakers stressed the importance of an integrated approach to disaster risk reduction, including climate change, sustainable development, security issues, youth and children, gender and biological disasters. Speakers said that with the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, disaster risk reduction had to take into account biological aspects...

'Women have played such a huge role in our mission to help individuals overcome disasters related to climate change,' said Sodohoin Messanh, chair of the management committee. 'The manual labor necessary to restore the Lake Boko canal was completed by them...

'Les éléments de cette base de données nous permettront d’anticiper et de savoir gérer convenablement les problèmes du changement climatiques. Nous n’allons plus nous laisser surprendre par les évènements,' a indiqué André Johnson, ministre de l’environnement...

This document examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate change will

'There are risks that farmers have learned to respond to over the years — but climate change will bring a different kind of risk that they are probably not used to and therefore need assistance [to adapt] to,' says Timothy Olalekan Williams, International Water Management Institute 's Africa director...

A new International Water Management Institute study highlighted how several adaptation measures could help farmers protect themselves from less predictable rain patterns and ensure the water supply of the Volta River Basin can keep up with growing demands...

This document addresses the need to promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation at the local and community level for a number of interconnected reasons, including (i) changes in the ecosystem resulting in freshwater shortages, reduced agricultural

This note looks at ways to integrate volunteerism into the environment and climate change area. It intends to contribute to strengthening of UNV capacity to more effectively engage partners in environmental and climate change activities during its