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Country Poverty Assessment St. Kitts And Nevis 2007/08: Living Conditions in a Caribbean Small Island Developing State - Volume 1: Living Conditions in St. Kitts and Nevis
2009This Country Poverty Assessment (CPA) provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Living Conditions in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN). The overall objective of the study was:DocumentGlobal goals, African realities: building a sustainable future for all
Africa Progress Panel, 2015The Africa Progress Report is the annual flagship publication of the Africa Progress Panel (APP). The report draws on the best research and analysis, and makes policy recommendations for African political leaders and civil society who collectively have the primary responsibility for spurring Africa’s progress.DocumentSustainability and poverty alleviation: Confronting environmental threats in Sindh, Pakistan
World Bank, 2015This book focus on the development challenges resulting from environmental health risks in Sindh, Pakistan. It highlights that, as well as the cost to human life and livelihoods, the economic costs are equivalent to 10 per cent of Sindh’s Gross Domestic Product, pointing out that climate change is likely to exacerbate these challenges.DocumentMeasuring ‘subjective resilience’: using people’s perceptions to quantify household resilience
Overseas Development Institute, 2015How should we measure a household’s resilience? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of ‘objective’ frameworks and methods of indicator selection.DocumentReview of targets for the Sustainable Development Goals: the science perspective
International Council for Science, 2015This report is an independent scientific review of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, as submitted to the UN General Assembly by the UN Open Working Group (OWG).DocumentEnvironmental and social safeguards (EoD)
Evidence on Demand, 2014This report reviews existing environmental, social and climate safeguard systems developed and adopted by multilateral and bilateral development agencies. The aim of the report is to assess the potential for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to adopt or rely on these systems.DocumentOptions for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Elsevier, 2011This journal article highlights that agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.DocumentCarbon intensification and poverty reduction in Kenya: lessons from the Kenya agricultural carbon project
2012This paper focuses on the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project, implemented by the NGO Vi Agroforestry, which is designing and implementing climate finance projects in the agricultural sector.DocumentA horizon scan of environmental drivers of poverty
Evidence on Demand, 2015This report presents the results of a rapid desk-based study of the environmental drivers of poverty, based on a review of peer-reviewed and grey literature for the last 10 years. The major non-climate environmental drivers of poverty are identified: biodiversity loss (at the global scale) and a variety of pollution and resource degradation issues at smaller scales.DocumentChoice, not control: Why limiting the fertility of poor populations will not solve the climate crisis
CARE International, 2014CARE paper outlining the need for a human rights based approach to family planning when discussed in climate mitigation and adaption contexts.Pages