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According to this paper, climate finance is a key resource to help society’s poorest, most marginalised and excluded people deal with the impacts of the triple crisis of climate change, nature’s degradation and poverty.

This paper uses six criteria for

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In 2018, as part of the “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities” programme, UNDRR, with the help of CIMA Research Foundation, VU Amsterdam, and Wageningen University and Research developed

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The IFRC in southern Africa has introduced an innovative way of anticipating humanitarian crises to enable early action and reduce their impact on communities.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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In this paper, the authors explore the role of political influences on the emergence and evolution of climate change adaptation policy and planning at national level in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia). For this, an

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This road map identifies activities and practical recommendations aiming to improve the availability, accessibility and use of risk information at the continental, regional, national and local scales.
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The impacts of climate change are threatening food security in Zambia. As farmers try to recover, they now must grapple with the compounding effects of the coronavirus.
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This study aims at quantifying the multiple benefits of disaster risk reduction (DRR) investments and building a knowledge base for risk-informed decision-making on DRR investment in Zambia. The present report describes the methods of direct and indirect

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Supporting countries to be better financially prepared to respond to shocks like COVID-19 is a new expanding area of work for the WB in the Southern Africa region.
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