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  Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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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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  Summary of CRiSTAL: Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation & Livelihoods

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2007

  CRiSTAL (Community-based Risk Screening Tool - Adaptation and Livelihoods) is a tool designed to assist project planner and managers with integrating risk reduction and climate change adaptation into community-level projects.
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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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  Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change in development assistance

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2007

  Over six development agencies are screening their portfolios with the aim of ascertaining the extent to which exisiting development projects already consider climate risks or address vulnerability to climate variability; and identifying opportunities for incorporating climate change explicitly into future projects.This paper assesses this screening process in order to dentify opportunites for d
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  Climate change and pastoralists: investing in people to respond to adversity

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  The sustainability of pastoral systems largely depends on a balancing act between pastures, livestock and people. The mobility of pastoralists and their livestock is also a key factor. With climate change, the authors of this article speculate that this balance will be undermined.
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  Societal adaptation to abrupt climate change and monsoon variability: implications for sustainable livelihoods of rural communities

  Winrock International India, New Delhi, 2005

  Historical adaptations to climate change are widely recognised, but adaptations by contemporary society living in regions with a fluctuating climate are not. This paper explores the literature on monsoon climate variability and consequent adaptations as well as implications of such adaptive systems for sustainable livelihoods.
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  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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  Sustainable livelihood approach for assessing community resilience to climate change: case studies from Sudan

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2005

  Community based sustainable livelihood (SL) and environmental management (EM) measures have already been implemented in rural communities of Sudan. These measures aim to build resilience to the stresses of drought and climate variability, as well as increase adaptive capacity to future climate change.

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