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  Financiamiento de la mitigación. Exposición de las brechas de género en el financiamiento de la mitigación del cambio climático y soluciones propuestas

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2013

  Hasta el momento, la mayoría de los fondos y los proyectos de mitigación del cambio climático han apoyado programas a gran escala relativos a la infraestructura energética y a la eficiencia industrial, priorizando las medidas científicas y tecnológicas a expensas de las consideraciones sociales y de comportamiento.
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  Climate Change and Rural Institutions in Nepal

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2013

  This working paper provides findings on the factors influencing how intermediate-level institutions in Nepal are responding to climate change and extreme climate events. Nepal has been ranked as the fourth most at risk country according to one Climate Change Vulnerability Index. The country is also experience transition as a post-conflict state. The paper presents a complex picture.
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  Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007

  In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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  The monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation in Nepal: a review of national systems

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  National monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems in Nepal have evolved rapidly over the past decade. The national planning commission has developed new guidelines and approaches to move the government towards results-based management and the use of sectoral and national indicators.
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  Making Adaptation a Private Sector Business:Insights from the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience in Nepal

  Climate Policy Initiative, 2013

  The decisions and behaviours of the private sector have the potential to lock countries into either continued vulnerability, or a path toward resilience; understanding the role of the private sector in contributing to climate change adaptation can help nations to effectively achieve climate-resilient development.
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  What makes for peaceful post- conflict elections?

  Swisspeace, 2013

  Elections play a crucial role in post-conflict peace and democratization processes as, among other factors, they provide an answer to the question of who is to legitimately rule the country. However, because of the competitiveness arising from their central role in allocating power they can also represent windows of vulnerability where deeply rooted societal conflicts can come to the surface.
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  The Last Straw? The additional burden of climate change on food security in the Himalaya | GRID-Arendal - Publications - The last straw

  GRID Arendal, 2013

  The food price spikes of 2007–08 brought food security into sharp focus on the global agenda. Declines in international commodity markets, financial speculation in low cereal stocks, dramatic weather events, soaring oil prices, and growth in biofuels competing for cropland merged to produce a global crisis.
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  Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)

  Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) is a government institution established in 1996 with the objective of developing and promoting renewable/alternative energy technologies in Nepal.
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  Final Report on Study on Role of Renewable Energy Technologies in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Options in Nepal

  Alternative Energy Promotion Centre, 2013

  This study tried to answer the central question: Can renewable energy technologies (RETs) be a triple win-win strategy to address mitigation – adaptation – development nexus, without or little trade off of development needs of people; therefore, can it be a foundation on which a climate resilient development path can be based on?
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  The Plumbing of Adaptation Finance: Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility at the Local Level

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013

  World Resources Institute working paper examining phase one of the Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative.

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