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    Integrating disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change

    CARE USA, 2015
    This brief describes a climate-integrated Community-based Early Warning System implemented by the Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP) in Dakoro, Niger. Integration of Community-based adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) is important in a context of chronic vulnerability, recurring emergencies and increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather events associated with climate change.
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    Climate change, ecosystem services and adaptation in East Africa’s semi-arid regions: early diagnostics of critical knowledge gaps for landscape conservation

    University of East Anglia, 2016
    This brief presents an overview of a Regional Diagnostic Study (RDS) that reviews existing risks and adaptation responses, and identifies major knowledge gaps needed to develop responses that can ensure widespread, sustained and equitable adaptation across the East Africa semi-arid regions.
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    Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid regions of East Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2015
    This report summarises key findings from the regional diagnostic study (RDS) of the ASSAR East Africa team, and identifies major gaps in the existing literature on areas of vulnerability and adaptation in semi-arid regions of East Africa.
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    The African Union migration and regional integration framework

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2015
    Migration within, into and out of Africa is an important demographic dynamic closely tied to broader social, economic and political processes. In 2014, close to three million people – displaced by conflict and persecution – were refugees on the African continent.
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    When refugees cannot return home: A conflict conundrum in Africa’s Great Lakes region

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2016
    The large number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Great Lakes region poses immense challenges to peacebuilding processes within the countries affected, as well as in that entire conflict system. An influx of refugees impacts peace and security, citizenship considerations, as well as cross-border and ethnic confl icts, among others.
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    Taking back the seas: prospects for Africa's blue economy

    Institute for Security Studies, 2016
    The discussion of Africa’s so-called blue economy rose to the top of African leaders’ agenda when African union (Au) members started a campaign for a continent-wide renaissance of the African maritime domain.
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    Feminist Africa e-spaces:e-politics

    African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2013
    Feminist Africa (FA) is a continental gender studies journal that provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, FA is guided by a profound commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa, and seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design.
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    The impact of China on Sub-Saharan Africa: working paper

    Open University Asian Drivers Programme, 2006
    This paper focuses on the rapidly-gr owing links between China and SSA. The spotlight is placed on three vectors of interaction – trade, foreign investment and aid. Chinese involvement in Africa is driven predominantly by the quest for material inputs (oil and other primary commodities) required for its infrastructural investments and booming manufacturing sector.
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    The East African Legislative Assembly disaster risk reduction and management bill 2013

    Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users, 2015
    The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) passed this 'Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Bill 2013' in March 2016, in an effort to curb the impact of natural and manmade hazards in the region. The bill, the first such regional legislation in Africa, aims to enhance the coordination of disaster preparedness, management, protection and mitigation measures.
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    Reflecting on the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China - Africa Cooperation (FOCAC): where to from here?

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2016
    The FOCAC summit held between 3 - 5 December 2015 coincided with the launching of China’s second Africa policy paper and be came the first time that a FOCAC summit was held on African soil as the others had all been Ministerial gatherings following the first summit in Beijing.

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