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Cover and source: Nature Scientific Reports
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This study explores the 2022 flood event in the Lake Chad basin, showing increasing precipitation due to climate change and highlighting the need for better water management.
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This study assesses Chad’s capacity to plan for, access, use, monitor and report on climate finance.
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This desk study aims to bridge pastoralist knowledge, local practices, and external interventions by synthesizing literature on pastoral knowledge and practices from the Greater Horn of Africa, Sudano-Sahel regions, and beyond.
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This study unveils diverse disaster risk trends and patterns, revealing variations in hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity across African countries by utilizing the INFORM risk model data spanning from 2012 to 2022
Cover and source: World Bank
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This report provides an overview of the state of ASP across six Sahelian countries as well as a set of recommendations for actions to strengthen the adaptiveness and responsiveness of existing systems to shocks.
Cover and source: Global Earthquake Model Foundation
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This seismic risk profile of Chad, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.
Kwazulu Natal floods, 2022
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Chad’s GDP growth was modest due to the impact of floods and a volatile security environment, which hindered the expected recovery.
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Young woman and a child sitting at a market in Mauritania
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This article presents 10 countries researchers have identified as most at risk of climate disaster. The IRC and WRI analyzed where climate crises are likely to occur and whether affected countries have the capacity to respond in vulnerable communities.
International Rescue Committee

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