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    Climate change, urban flooding, and the urban poor in Africa

    ActionAid International, 2006
    The UN Millenium summit committed to achieving ‘a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers’ by 2020. However, in Africa – the world’s fastest urbanising region – climate change is threatening that goal.
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    Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi

    ActionAid International, 2006
    While policy responses to global warming have mainly been driven by debates among scientists, the insights of poor people living on the frontline have been largely neglected. This study seeks to understand what is happening from poor peoples' perspectives. A field study was conducted using Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) in two districts of Malawi.
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    We know what we need. South Asian women speak out on climate change adaptation

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Women will suffer most from climate change, because they are poorer. They have less access to financial resources, land, education, health and other basic rights than men, and are seldom involved in decision making processes. Women are therefore less able to cope with the impacts of climate change and are less able to adapt.
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    Adapting to climate variability and change: a guidance manual for development planning

    USAID Global Climate Change Program, 2007
    It is important to consider the potential impact of climate change when planning and designing development projects. Understanding, planning for and adapting to changing climate enables individuals and societies to make the most of opportunities and reduce risk.
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    Climate change and children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
    This publication seeks to give children a voice on climate change, which has become a growing concern for them. This paper discusses the effects of climate change on children and young people focusing in particular on the following issues: Natural Disaster, Disease, Water, Food Security, Trees, Energy, Action and Advocacy.
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    Beyond any drought: root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    This paper examines vulnerability to droughts in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the background of the 2005 food crisis in the Sahel region. The authors argue that vulnerability to droughts is due to a combination of political, economic and social forces as well as the impacts of highly variable rainfall.
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    Making sense of climate change, natural disasters and displacement: a work in progress

    Brookings Institution, 2007
    This report discusses some of the problems with the current debate on climate change’s impact on displacement. In doing so, it reviews what is known about climate change and considers alternative ways that climate change relates to environmental factors, which in turn influence displacement.
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    Community Risk Assessment methodologies and case studies

    ProVention Consortium, 2007
    This webpage presents an extensive collection of methodologies and case studies on Community Risk Assessment, collected and analysed by Cape Town University, Ben Wisner and the ProVention Consortium Secretariat as part of a ProVention project. A list of the following types of methodological resource are included in the collection:
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    Assessment of impacts and adaptation to climate change: final report of the AIACC project

    Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training, 2007
    It is now recognised that there is an urgent need in developing countries to formulate and implement adaptive strategies that would lessen climate change risks.
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    Strengthening the capacity of developing countries to prepare for and participate in negotiations on future actions under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol: the BASIC project final report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    The role of large developing countries in combating climate change will become increasingly important as the world negotiates a post-2012 agreement on climate change. This report summarises the activities undertaken by the BASIC Project (Building and Strengthening Institutional Capacities on Climate Change in Brazil, India, China and South Africa).

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