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Technology-based non structural measures for managing floods
A.B. Shrestha / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development , 2008
Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. They tend to carry with them much hi...
Community-based approaches to flash flood risk management
A.B. Shrestha;S.H. Shah;R. Karim / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development , 2008
Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people ...
Mainstreaming gender into Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes: a training manual for water professionals
Gender and Water Alliance , 2009
The training manual on mainstreaming gender into Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes is an integrated approach to both gender and WASH issues. It aims to provide participatory gend...
Integrating the linkages between the environment and poverty reduction processes and institutions
UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative, 2009
Poverty-environment mainstreaming is the process that aims at integrating the linkages between the environment and poverty reduction processes and institutions. This handbook has been designed to p...
A guide to climate change for indigenous peoples
R. de Chavez (ed);V. Tauli-Corpuz (ed);E. Baldo-Soriano;et al. / Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2008
This manual has been written to empower indigenous peoples to participate more effectively in shaping relevant policies and actions taken to address issues related to climate change. It also aims t...
Analysing the impact of World Bank lending
World Bank, 2008
How can the environmental impact of World Bank lending be calculated? The Operations Policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), requires that the World Bank systematically analyses whether specifi...
Applying a gender approach to water management
D. Milena Guio-Torres;P. Taylor / International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) [UNDP], 2006
There are significant gender differences in use, access and management of water. In many cases, gender discrimination can limit the women’s and men’s chances to access vital water resou...
Training material for integrated water resource management
P. Taylor;R. Lidèn;W. Ndirangu;et al. / International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) [UNDP], 2008
Unregulated use of scarce water resources is wasteful and highly unsustainable. Integrated water management aims to create coherent policies which take into account all different user groups a...
How to manage and resolve conflict over water resource management
International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) [UNDP], 2008
Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of human social systems. Given the central importance of water resources to all human communities, it is natural that conflicts arise with regard to access, alloca...
A training course on participatory forest management
S Worah / Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific , 2008
Participatory and inclusive approaches to forest and Protected Area management are not new. They have been advocated by various groups including NGOs, academics and forest resource users for over two ...
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