Tools and practice
- A toolkit for practitioners to support climate mitigation and adaptation in communities
- This publication provides practical tools for practitioners to support poverty reduction through mitigation and adaptation to climate change in developing countries. These tools and methodologies are gleaned from a learning-by-doing approach from projects implemented in Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Mozambique.
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- Helping farmers learn from each other: the Lead Farmer project in Malawi
- ( Development Fund, Norway , 2008)
- Food insecurity is one of the major threats that the people of Malawi face. 90% of Malawian farmers are smallholders who face a host of challenges in their farming activities, including:...
- Community Risk Assessment: methodologies and case studies
- ( ProVention Consortium , 2007)
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This webpage presents an extensive collection of methodologies and case studies on Community Risk Assessment, collected and analysed by Cape Town University, Ben Wisner and the ProVention Consortiu...
- Building climate change into community-based development activities
- ( R. Jones;A. Rahman / Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia , 2007)
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This article highlights the value of a community-based adaptation (CBA) approach to addressing vulnerability to climate change, and describes the rise of the CBA movement, and its current state.&nb...
- How should humanitarian organisations integrate increased climate risk into their work?
- ( Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness , 2007)
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Climate change presents additional challenges for humanitarian organisations responding to disasters and complex emergencies. This guide provides a basic overview of climate change science and its ...
- Designing, implementing and monitoring community-based climate adaptation projects
- ( M. Alam;L. Mqadi / Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary , 2007)
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Sustainable community-based strategies can play an essential role in helping poor and vulnerable communities adapt to the risks posed by climate change. The Adaptation Programme of t...
- Lessons learned from community-based climate change adaptation projects in South-Eastern Africa
- ( Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development , 2007)
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Across south-eastern Africa, organisations are developing and implementing projects specifically designed to support adaptation to climate change, many at the community level. This paper reports on...
Training young people to deal with future disasters
- ( UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office , 2007)
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Young people in Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand have been confronted in the past few years with a series of disasters of tremendous proportions. This paper reports on a regional forum on Disas...
- Provides practical tools for achieving poverty reduction through mitigation and adaptation to climate change
- ( South South North , 2006)
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The South South North network adopts a pragmatic approach to tackling climate change and sustainable development. This module incorporates the main approaches and provides a toolkit for practitione...
- Assisting project planners and managers to integrate risk reduction and climate change adaptation into community-level projects.
- ( A. Hammill / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg , 2007)
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CRiSTAL (Community-based Risk Screening Tool - Adaptation and Livelihoods) is a tool designed to assist project planner and managers with integrating risk reduction and climate change adaptation in...
- Breaking down the complexity of vulnerability into manageable components with communities to reduce their exposure to hazards and shocks
- ( E. Chiwaka;R. Yates / ActionAid International , 2004)
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This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to...
