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    Sustainable management of common natural resources in Mongolia (Ph III)

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can survive a range of conditions. Knowledge and use of diverse plant types - either planted or foraged - could be key to survival as climate extremes widen.
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    Project Idea Note: Pintadas Solar

    South South North, 2006
    The project takes place in the community of Pintadas, in the Bahia state of Brazil, which is suffering increasingly severe drought impacts linked to climate change.
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    Building community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability

    South South North, 2006
    The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific objectives of the project are: 
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    Bridging knowledge gaps between locals and experts through participatory decision making processes to address climate change impacts

    South South North, 2006
    This Pilang project will develop methodologies to facilitate effective communication between local communities and climate, marine and agricultural experts, to generate information regarding climate change vulnerabilities in the coastal area of Pilang. This information will be used to develop adaptation strategies for the target population. The project aims to: 
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    Community-based adaptation: An IIED briefing

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    This briefing paper describes a new approach to addressing the vulnerability of poor communities to climate change: Community-based adaptation (CBA).
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    Community based adaptation to climate change bulletin

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2007
    The bulletin describes the second community based adaptation (CBA) workshop held in Dhaka in February 2007. The workshop aimed to share the latest developments in community-based adaptation programmes, priorities and solutions with a view to integrating the lessons into national and international development programmes.
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    Participatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff

    ActionAid International, 2004
    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 reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to: 
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    Climate change impacts on East Africa: a review of scientific literature

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2006
    This report highlights some of the major impacts of climate change on conservation for East African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. It also illustrates that climate change in Africa is not only a conservation issue but also a socio-economic one that must be dealt with on a global scale.
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    Centre for Environmental Resources and Hazards Research, University of Jos, Nigeria

    The Centre for Environmental Resources and Hazards Research is hosted in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Jos, Nigeria.
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    Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)

    OSS aims to provide a platform for partnership between countries and organisations in the North and South to combat desertification and poverty in Africa.

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