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Climate resilient development: experience from an African capacity development programme
The African Ministers' Council on Water, 2016This learning brief presents insights and lessons learned from a capacity development programme on water security and climate resilient development covering eight countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tunisia and Zimbabwe. The programme engaged some 140 participants and 30 lecturers/mentors, and held over 50 workshops.DocumentParticipation and planning for climate change – Lessons from an experimental project in Maputo, Mozambique
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Reading, 2015Mozambique is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, in particular those of hydro-meteorological origin such as floods, drought and cyclones. Increases in both temperature and average precipitation due to climate change will exacerbate the already high incidence of extreme events in Mozambique.DocumentForest adjacent households’ voices on their perceptions and adaptation strategies to climate change in Kilombero District, Tanzania
Springer, 2016Climate change is a global and local challenge to both sustainable livelihoods and economic development. Tanzania as other countries of the world has been affected. Several studies have been conducted on farmers’ perceptions and adaptation to climate change in the country, but little attention has been devoted to forest adjacent households in humid areas.DocumentGreen economy scoping study for Saint Lucia
UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre, 2016The scoping study was produced by the Government of Saint Lucia, the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology and UNEP, with the collaboration of the University of the West Indies, and financial support of the European Union, as part of the project Advancing Caribbean States' Sustainable Development through Green Economy.DocumentThe effects of climate change on coastal erosion in West Africa
World Bank Publications, 2015This policy brief notes that the effects of climate change, from changing precipitation patternsDocumentUnfinished business: how to close the post-Paris adaptation finance gap
Oxfam, 2016This policy briefing notes that international support for climate change adaptation fallsDocumentChanging climate, changing disasters: pathways towards integration
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012The Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach helps to tackle disasters, poverty and adaptation through improved integration. It is for disaster risk managers, created by disaster risk managers. The CSDRM approach responds to the urgent need for organisations to be able to learn, reflect and integrate in better ways in order to remain relevant to their mission and goals.DocumentLearning to tackle climate change
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012How can continuous learning and reflection help tackle climate change in the context of wider development challenges?DocumentImpact assessment report and national adaptation strategy and action plan to address climate change in the tourism sector of Saint Lucia: volume I
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2015Saint Lucia experiences several stresses with the onset of climate change. Issues related to droughts during unusually extended dry periods, and significant flooding and subsequent damage from tropical systems have been high on the agenda.DocumentAn assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the tourism sector in the Caribbean: policy brief
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013For most people, the Caribbean is synonymous with tropical islands with exotic flora and fauna, surrounded by blue seawater and white sandy beaches where the tourism industry can be disaggregated into cruise, all-inclusive, special interest and ecotourism. Tourism is one of the most important areas of economic activity in the Caribbean.Pages