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  Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability in East Africa: A case study on the use of CARE's Climate Change Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) Methodology within the Global Water Initiative East Africa Programme

  Care Climate Change Information Centre, 2011

  This case study analyses the results, lessons learned and recommendations emerging from the application of the Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) methodology. The assessment was carried out within CARE’s framework for Community-based Adaptation (CBA) in the context of the Global Water Initiative (GWI) in East Africa, funded by the Howard G.
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  Access to Productive Assets and Impact on Household Welfare in Rural Uganda

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011

  Improvements in household wealth and welfare play vital roles in sustainable development. Sustainable development occurs when households are able to secure a level of well-being that enables them to cope with and recover from shocks, and does not decline over time.
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  Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View

  International Labour Organization, 2011

  This volume examines the experiences of 21 developed and developing countries in adjusting their training provision to meet the new demands of a greener economy. It shows that skills development is critical to unlocking the employment potential of green growth, yet skills shortages are becoming an obstacle in realising this potential.
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  Climate Risk Management through Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  This paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) explores the adaptation benefits of sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices at the local and landscape levels based on case studies in Kenya, Uganda, Niger and Nigeria.
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  An ICT Framework to enhance food security in rural communities of Uganda

  2009

  The Government of Uganda has identified ICT as a major tool for achieving socio-economic development (Rwangoga and Baryayetunga, 2007) with emphasis on the communication sector (Baryamureeba, 2007; Gurstein, 2000). The Uganda food and nutrition policy also emphasizes the need of ICT integration in its endeavours to achieve food security for all (MAAIF and MoH, 2004).
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  From resolution to reality: lessons learned from Afghanistan, Nepal and Uganda on women's participation in peacebuilding and post-conflict governance

  CARE International, 2010

  UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325, 2000) was hailed a victory for women’s rights activists around the world. The adoption of the resolution represented a significant step forward in recognising the strategic contribution that women can make to peace and security policy, as well as acknowledging the increasing use of violence against women as a tactic of war.
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  The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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  Win-win scenarios at the climate-development interface: challenges and opportunities for stove replacement programs through carbon finance

  Social Science Research Network, 2010

  This paper reviews the possibilities for win-win climate and development outcomes in programmes that distribute improved efficiency cookstoves (ICS) with the use of carbon finance.
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  Rethinking Support for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: The Role of Development Interventions

  Overseas Development Institute, 2011

  Change is a constant in the lives of rural people in Africa. People have always had to cope with sudden shocks such as war, rain failures or food price spikes, and with longer-term stresses such as population increases, the degradation of natural resources and long-term decline in their terms of trade.
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  Grassroots speakout on UN Women: outcome document

  Huairou Commission, 2011

  On March 2nd, grassroots women leaders from around the world voiced their key recommendations and experiences to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Dr. Michelle Bachelet, and other representatives of UN Women and governments. A supportive audience of leaders of the global women’s movement and gender advocates filled the room beyond capacity.

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