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Building resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters (BRACED)
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How devolved climate finance can deliver climate resilience at local level
IIED and partners are highlighting the potential of devolved climate finance to deliver climate funding that is equitable and responsive to the needs of local people. The organisations say that local climate adaptation planning offers significant benefits, particularly for people in poor and marginalised areas, and have released an animation that explains how decentralised climate funds operate, and the benefits they offer, that will be screened at a side event on devolved climate finance at COP22
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Join us for the 14th Development & Climate Days at COP22
Registrations have opened for D&C Days 2016, which will take place on 12-13 November 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco, during the middle weekend of this year's United Nations climate change summit
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Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts
Approaches developed in Mali, Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania offer insights for building resilience in areas facing risks of climate change, disasters and conflict
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Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
Assessing how climate change adaptation and development investments can strengthen local people's resilience to climate extremes
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Drylands: volatile, vibrant and under-valued?
Since 2006, we have done significant innovative work with partners to dispel the misconception that drylands are unproductive, generating evidence on returns from drylands to contribute to positive policy by challenging policymakers' misconceptions that drylands are economically inefficient and environmentally destructive
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Local climate adaptation: bridging the funding gap
Communities often know how to adapt to changes in the climate and extreme weather events but they lack access and control over the funds which could help them put these solutions into practice
