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  Climate change, children and poverty: engaging children and youth in policy debate and action

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2016

  Children’s vulnerability to climate change can be understood as an intersection of three axes. The first is exposure; the extent to which children live in a physical location that is vulnerable to drought, floods, extreme weather events and sea level rise.
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  REDD+ finance flows 2009-2014: trends and lessons learned in REDDX countries

  Forest Trends, 2015

  The study follows the money trail in 13 countries that account for 65 percent of the globe’s tropical forest cover under the U.N.’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative, a key part of the ongoing U.N. climate negotiations.
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  Seeing through fishers' lenses: Exploring marine ecological changes within Mafia Island Merine Park, Tanzania

  SAGE, 2016

  nsights from traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the marine environment are difficult to integrate into conventional science knowledge (CSK) initiatives. Where TEK is integrated into CSK at all, it is usually either marginalized or restricted to CSK modes of interpretation, hence limiting its potential contribution to the understanding of social-ecological systems.
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  Strengthening displaced women's housing, land and property rights in Afghanistan

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014

  This report captures the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) groundbreaking work in Afghanistan, including NRC’s role in bringing greater understanding and visibility to Afghan women’s housing, land and property (WHLP) issues in a displacement context. Over three million Afghan women have been internally displaced or sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
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  Life can change: securing housing, land and property rights for displaced women

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014

  In  many  places  affected  by  conflict  and  crisis,  displaced  women continue  to  live  in  extreme  vulnerability.  They  often  suffer  unbelievable human rights abuses and remain marginalised, unable to make decisions about their lives and their communities.
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  Alliances for Religions and Conservations (ARC) “Faith Engagement in Climate Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015

  This is a desk appraisal of the Alliances for Religions and Conservations (ARC) done for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) by the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
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  The Norwegian climate and forest funding to civil society: key results 2013-2015

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016

  Civil society is an important complement to the bilateral and multilateral support under Norway’s Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). From indigenous peoples’ networks, through watchdogs and knowledge and service providers, they help ensure accountability in, and sustainability of, efforts to reduce deforestation in tropical forests.
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  REDD+ hits the ground: lessons learned from Tanzania's REDD+ pilot projects

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2016

  Tanzania launched a series of REDD+ pilot projects in 2009 with the goal of testing approaches to reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). These projects, funded by the government of Norway experimented with a range of different approaches to protect forests, while supporting livelihoods and local economic development.
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  Protected area governance, carbon offset forestry, and environmental (in)justice at Mount Elgon, Uganda

  University of East Anglia, 2015

  At Mount Elgon National Park in Uganda, local conservation authorities assert that a variety of benefit sharing schemes mitigate the negative consequences of exclusionary forest conservation and carbon sequestration for nearby communities.
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  Local biomass burning is a dominant cause of the observed precipitation reduction in southern Africa

  Nature Communications, 2016

  Observations indicate a precipitation decline over large parts of southern Africa since the 1950s. Concurrently, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols have increased due to anthropogenic activities.

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