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Fisheries account for 12 per cent of The Gambia's GDP. The country's Atlantic coastline and the mangroves along the River Gambia estuary are vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Javier D. Creative Commons via Flickr)
GCF funding boosts ecosystem-based adaptation in The Gambia
Insight, 22 June 2017
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Calling for business unusual: mechanisms for delivering change
… facilitate more sustainable adaptation actions, and put decisions and resources into the hands of the people and places that need them most. …
Publication, 01 April 2020
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The effectiveness of health provision for women and girls in the context of gender inequalities and climate change
Publication, 24 March 2021
Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia
… Biopiracy – the appropriation of the knowledge and genetic resources of indigenous communities without permission or compensation – … legitimate opportunities for communities to benefit from biological resources has allowed biopiracy to thrive. For example marula oil and … from the developed world claiming ownership of our genetic resources and traditional knowledge and it has been made easier by a …
Article, 21 March 2016
Women walking along Sélingué dam in Mali, June 2014 (Photo: Lucile Robinson/GWI West Africa)
La CEDEAO encourage les États à tirer les leçons du bilan économique des grands barrages en Afrique de l'Ouest
News, 25 March 2015
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Farmer-herder conflict in Africa: rethinking the phenomenon?
… as disruptive and backward, fighting an unwinnable battle for scarce resources. Yet in truth it is an under-valued adaptation to variability …
Publication, 01 June 2020
Man in a mangrove forest
Striving for better: following LDC leadership in addressing the climate crisis
… capabilities for delivery. Placing local action at the heart, where resources are put into local hands with a target of 70% finance flows … programme delivery – cutting down transaction costs so maximum resources reach the communities they’re intended for.  Shifting the dial … launch the locally led adaptation principles focusing on increasing resources to local level. These are a good first step by the …
Insight, 26 January 2021
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Narrowing the data gap to the achieve the New Urban Agenda
… of indicators and tracking tools. But with the right support and resources and through innovative partnerships and creative data methods, …
Publication, 01 February 2020
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ecbi 2019 Regional Training Workshop Report – South and South-East Asia
Publication, 01 September 2019
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Financing Myanmar’s fisheries through fiscal reform
… hilsa production and trade — could be used to mobilise additional resources from the value chain. Doing so could provide financing for a …
Publication, 01 March 2020