Linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk management for sustainable poverty reduction

This report presents a cross-cutting summary of a country study findings and the international Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group (VARG) workshop deliberations. In each of the country studies assessment was made of current efforts to address disaster risks and climate change, focussing particularly on aspects that can help build inter-linkage between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.

The report based on the findings of a series of country studies conducted early in 2006 in Kenya, México and Vietnam, and subsequent discussions during an international VARG workshop in Geneva, Switzerland in October 2006 hosted by United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and sponsored by DFID, DGIS, GTZ, OECD and SIDA.