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Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014Summary for policymakers on climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation, based on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.DocumentNatural Disasters in the Middle East and North Africa: A Regional Overview
World Bank, 2014This report profiles a regional profile of natural Disasters in the Middle East and North Africa (MNA), including a focus on climate related hazards. It tracks progress on disaster risk management at the regional and national levels and looks at remaining challenges. It also explores World Bank Disaster Risk Management Programming in the MNA Region and proposes a way forward.DocumentProtecting Health from Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
World Health Organization, 2013Taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes, this document provides basic and flexible guidance for conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability to climate change health risks, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience.DocumentAn overview of the development challenges and constraints of the Niger Basin and possible intervention strategies
International Water Management Institute, 2011The Niger River Basin covers 7.5% of the African continent and is shared between nine riparian countries. The human population of the basin is growing at an average annual rate of about 3%, which makes the Niger River Basin one of the areas with the highest fertility rates in the world.DocumentChanging to biofuel crops makes productive use of contaminated water.
2011Ten years ago, Thai epidemiologists noticed unusual clusters of kidney disease among elderly people around the town of Mae Sot. Heavy metal poisoning was suspected. A research team, including scientists from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), demonstrated that an irrigation system dissecting an area rich in minerals was contaminating local rice.DocumentMapping drought patterns and impacts: a global perspective.
International Water Management Institute, 2009The study examines the global pattern and impacts of droughts through mapping several drought-related characteristics - either at a country level or at regular grid scales. It appears that arid and semi-arid areas also tend to have a higher probability of drought occurrence.DocumentAssessment of the headwaters of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia
World Agroforestry Centre, 2012The study site of Fogera Woreda is one of 106 woredas of the Amhara National Regional State and is located in the South Gondar Zone, about 65 km north of the Regional capital Bahir Dar town, onDocumentPayments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor.
World Agroforestry Centre, 2013Payments for ecosystem services (PES) provide a market based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services.DocumentThe Chronic Poverty Report 2014-2015: The road to zero extreme poverty
Overseas Development Institute, 2014Achieving ‘zero poverty’ is a long and hard task, but this comprehensive empirical report published by the Overseas Development Institute argues that it is possible by focusing on the three arms of the ‘zero poverty tripod’: tackling chronic poverty, stopping impoverishment, and sustaining poverty escapes.DocumentCommunity-led disaster risk reduction in Mongu, Zambia: Project effectiveness review
Oxfam, 2014This technical paper focuses on Zambia’s ‘Community-Led Disaster Risk Reduction’ project which was randomly selected for an Effectiveness Review under the adaptation and risk reduction thematic area.Pages