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- Effective measures to build resilience in Africa to adapt to climate change
- ( International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2011)
- This policy brief reflects that African countries are committed and investing funds to reduce risk to floods and droughts, albeit too little and still insufficiently in development sectors. These find...
- Review and analysis of existing drought risk reduction policies and programmes in Kenya.
- ( International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2008)
- This study entail review and analysis of existing national level Disaster Risk Reduction policies and programmes including those of the Kenya government, bilateral and multi-lateral agencies as well ...
- Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Advocacy kit for parliamentarian
- ( International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2010)
- This kit aims to assist members of parliament to oversee national progress and investments made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in their country, using disaster risk reduction. It...
- Words into action: a guide for implementing the Hyogo Framework
- ( M. Barrantes (ed);P. Basabe (ed);R. Basher (ed) / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2011)
- The need for a global disaster reduction strategy has been underscored by a string of disasters, including tsunamis, earthquakes and droughts. As such, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) was formula...
- Disaster risk reduction NGO inter-agency group learning review
- ( J. Twigg (ed);H. Bottomley (ed) / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2011)
- Between 2005 and 2010, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded ActionAid, Christian Aid, Practical Action, Plan and Tearfund to carry out disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects. ...
- Opportunities for integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in development planning and decision-making: examples from Sub-Saharan Africa
- ( A. Olhoff (ed) / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2011)
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This paper analyses nine climate change adaptation mainstreaming projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, analysing whether collaboration of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)...
- At the crossroads: climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific
- ( K. Berse (ed);P. Tran (ed);J. Velasquez (ed) / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2011)
- The Asia‐Pacific is the world's most vulnerable region when it comes to natural disasters, and yet scant information exists about how regional Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptati...
- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters
- ( International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2005)
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This paper presents a detailed overview of ‘The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015', which was adopted at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Hyogo, Japan in 2005.
- Resilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations
- ( C. Folke;S. Carpenter;T. Elmqvist / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2002)
- This paper is a synthesis of the rapidly-changing field of resilience research and argues that humanity has powerful interactions with biogeochemical, hydrological and ecological processes, from local...
- Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Risk Management Practices: critical elements for adaptation to climate change
- ( International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2008)
- This paper presents the risk-related elements referred to in the Bali Action Plan, namely disaster reduction strategies and risk management including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms. The paper no...
