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    A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Practical Action’s Livelihood-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Nepal

    Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2011
    This study provides a systematic cost-benefit analysis of a community-based disaster risk management project led by Practical Action in two districts of Nepal over the period 2007 to 2010. The objectives of the project are:
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    Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPAs)

    2012
    Nepal was among the last countries to develop the National Adaptation Plans of Action (NAPAs) for climate change but it has been able to pick lessons from NAPA processes in other countries. NAPA is an overarching document for addressing climate variability, its impact and adaptation practices.
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    Should Africa take the renewable energy path?

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Modern energy services are essential for reducing poverty. Countries need energy to increase economic production, which improves livelihood options for women and men. Energy is also needed to increase agricultural productivity, provide clean water and improve human health, and energy enables girls and boys to go to school.
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    The future of pastoralism in a changing climate

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Pastoralism is a free-range livestock production system. It is practised in all of Africa’s dryland regions, and in some communities it is the main source of food security and income. But will pastoralism survive in the changing climate? This issue of Joto Afrika provides research findings, lessons learnt and success stories from across Africa.
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    Community champions: adapting to climate challenges

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2010
    This report presents project and activity summaries from the fourth international Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2010. It notes that CBA is targeted at those most vulnerable to climate change and represents a relatively new approach consisting of community-based development activities, practices, research and policies.
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    The implications of climate change for health in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2010
    The interactions between health and climate change are clearly recognised; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change includes a chapter on health issues in all its publications. But we still need to better understand all the possible impacts of climate change on health.
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    Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

    Development Research Network, 2010
    This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries, some best practice/management practices implemented in South Asia and offer recommendations for both practitioners and policy makers.
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    Forestry and REDD in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2010
    Over 70 percent of Africa’s population depends on forests: for fuel wood, construction materials, medicine, food, and revenue from forest products. Governments and conservationists recognise Africa’s forests for their high biodiversity and environmental benefits.
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    Community-Based Adaptation Toolkit

    CARE International, 2010
    Adaptation is now recognised as an essential part of the global response to climate change. Based on decades of experience, development actors are increasingly promoting a “community-based” approach that recognises the unique risks faced by poor and marginalised people, as well as their essential roles in planning, implementing, monitoring & evaluating (M&E) solutions.
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    Toolkit for integrating climate change adaptation into development projects

    CARE International, 2010
    It is critical to integrate, or “mainstream” thinking about climate change into development strategies, plans and programmes. This is especially true when pursuing goals that are most likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change, such as greater access to safe drinking water, healthy ecosystems or foodsecurity.

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