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Indigeonous communities join government officials, NGOs and academics to participate in a ridge-to-reef mapping workshop in Cagayan de Oro City to identify threats to the forest and environment ecosystem (Photo: Horacio Marcos C. Mordeno, MindaNews, Creative Commons via Flickr)
International Disaster and Risk Conference 2016: key resources
Article, 28 August 2016
A community in Bangladesh maps out their local resources and plans for an emergency.
Lessons from Bangladesh for a post-Sandy New York
News, 22 January 2013
Clothes hang on lines outside small poorly maintained houses
Introduction to building transformative urban resilience for all
… combination of inequitable urban growth and rapid and unpredictable climate change is resulting in a rapidly growing number of urban residents … help cities in low-and-middle income countries transition from crisis management to multi-hazard, risk-informed planning and decision making …
Article, 01 April 2022
An image showing a group of women from Tongaradha village, Bangladesh, who saved more than 2,000 hectares of land and 500 households from flooding by rebuilding a 12km embankment and a 5km road. GCF money should be used for such innovative, community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change (Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Expediting direct access to the GCF for least developed countries
Insight, 09 May 2016
Fishermen hauling in a net
Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean
… potential for developing effective marine plans for sustainable stock management.  2. What is the economic impact of the sector? This lack of … fishing and urban developments.   4. How can we predict and adapt to change? A limited capacity to predict, understand and prepare for change is aggravated by climate change, which threatens severe impacts on fish stocks. Other …
Project, 05 August 2019
Pastoralists pull water from a well near Denan in the Somali Region of Ethiopia for their camels. (Photo: Andrew Heavens, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Pastoralism and policy training: addressing misconceptions and informing dialogue
Project, 17 December 2012
International climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are preparing the text for a global climate deal to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A 1.5 degree goal could save us from ourselves
Insight, 10 June 2015
Cover for 17725CIIED.pdf
基于自然的气候变化应对方案
Publication, 01 September 2019
Mozambique: the next Atlantis?
… to the risk of sea-level rise) on how to adapt to the effects of climate change through the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP) . The … Early warning systems The Mozambique Government’s National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) has been attempting to combat the risks … Climate change …
Insight, 15 September 2011
Learning route participants interact with local communities in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Timothy Mwaura/CGIAR)
Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts
Insight, 24 August 2016