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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...

When unexpectedly heavy floods displaced more than a million people in southern Africa in 2007, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) began to meet annually to prepare for future occurrences, culminating in the creation of the SADC Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this month.

“Build bridges because every year children miss school in the rainy season when they have to cross gullies, rivers and water channels huge enough to drown them,” a child from Lesotho told the recently launched Children’s Charter on Disaster Risk Reduction.

This document introduces the international German Red Cross (GRC) cooperation, which includes disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) as one of its main sector. It presents some concrete examples of GRC projects in the sectors of

The Southern Africa Development Community Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, GFDRR and UNISDR are conducting a disaster risk reduction stakeholders training workshop from 27-28 August 2011.

The publication presents the main findings of climate change projections in the short-term (until 2030), identifies the key impacts on livelihoods and food security in major agro-ecological zones and outlines the experience and lessons learned on

This is 'an opportunity to agree on a global road map for more coordinated, better financed, higher-quality reconstruction after disasters' said Zoubida Allaoua, Director of the World Bank’s Finance, Economics and Urban Development Department, speaking at the pre-conference launch in a report by Dinesh Singh Rawat for ABC...

This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the