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'The country was still in the process of developing strategies to deal with climate change and associated natural disasters. “Most of the time we’re reacting to shocks as they come. I think we do need a long-term strategy, but at the moment implementation due to lack of resources is the problem,' said Matseliso Mojaki from Lesotho's Disaster Management Authority...

Aligning with the priorities outlined in the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, this plan responds to the need to develop a longer-term strategic approach that helps articulate funding

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in southern Africa. For the purpose of this review, this region is designated as including the countries of Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

This PDNA examines the social and economic damage caused by a series of extreme weather events between December 2010 and February 2011 in Lesotho. A disaster recovery framework with guiding principles for reconstruction and DRR programs is included.

This booklet is the evaluative outcome of the capacity development strategy on Education in Emergencies (EiE) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) practitioners in Lesotho. This has been carried out in partnership with Save the Children under the aegis of

This report is the culmination of Knowledge Facilitation Workshop conducted for curriculum developers in Lesotho on Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into National Curriculum, during the period of 05-09 September 2011 in Maseru, Lesotho. The

Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent, and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) today announced seven winning projects from across Africa that will support important and innovative initiatives to better equip the African continent to deal with the effects of climate change...