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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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    Community risk assessment toolkit

    ProVention Consortium, 2007
    This document details a toolkit aimed at strengthening community level risk assessment practice. It also focuses on ways of influencing disaster risk management decisions, policies and plans at sub-national and national levels. Four main features from the toolkit are discussed: 
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    Surviving disasters and supporting recovery: a guidebook for microfinance institutions

    World Bank, 2006
    Experiences of several Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in disaster-prone areas have demonstrated that access to microfinance services can support disaster preparedness and risk reduction by decreasing client vulnerability. When clients have access to needed financial services during crisis situations, the impact of the disaster may considerably lessen.
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    NAPAssess: a decision support tool for use in the Sudan NAPA process

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2005
    As part of Sudan’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) process the Stockholm Environment Institute has developed a new tool to aid in the development of NAPA programmes. The NAPAssess model aims to assist in the process of identifying adaptation practical actions, and evaluate and prioritise adaptation initiatives.
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    Climate change vulnerability assessments: an evolution of conceptual thinking

    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 2002
    Climate change vulnerability assessments are performed for numerous purposes, with each purpose having particular information needs, and so this requires a particular assessment method to provide this information.
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    Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction: a tool for development organisations

    Tearfund, 2005
    In recent years a large amount of work has been done to increase awareness of disaster risk reduction (DRR) within the context of development.
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    Surviving climate change in small islands: a guidebook

    Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2005
    Climate change is an environmental hazard that affects all countries, although it poses special risks and challenges for small islands. This practical manual specifically addresses what small island countries should do in order to develop adaptation strategies to changing weather patterns.

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