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  National Programme Document - Ecuador UN-REDD Programme

  2011

  Document preparation for the implementation of REDD + mechanism in Ecuador.
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  Cities on the Climate Change Initiative: Adaptation and mitigation to climate change strategy for Esmeraldas Canton

  United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2011

  The climate change strategy for the Esmeraldas Canton is a document that seeks to provide technical guidance to facilitate the design and implementation of policies and actions to combat the adverse impacts of climate change.
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  Supporting social accountability in the Middle East and North Africa: lessons learned from past political and economic transitions

  World Bank, 2011

  Social accountability (SA) is an approach to governance that involves citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) in public decision-making and in holding governments accountable for its actions. This note deems that SA is, in essence, an important feature of democratisation, and is therefore particularly relevant for countries in transition in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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  El proceso de Preparación para REDD+ en Mesoamérica: Actores, tendencias y temas críticos

  Programa Salvadoreño de investigación sobre desarrollo y medio mmbiente, 2011

  This report shows that the process of preparation for REDD in Mesoamerica is characterized for being relatively widespread, although there are enormous challenges regarding information, participation and consultation.
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  Vulnerabilidad y adaptación al cambio climático de los pobladores rurales de la planicie costera central de El Salvador

  2007

  The purpose of this research was to develop, in conjunction with local stakeholders, a strategy on adaptation to climate change, based on an integrated assessment of the factors that determine the current climate vulnerability and future climate change in the territory located in the coastal plain in central El Salvador, between the towns of Zacatecoluca, Jiquilisco and Tecoluca.
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  Adaptation to climate change in semi-arid environments: experience and lessons from Mozambique

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  Southern Africa is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as droughts, floods and variable rainfall. Urgent action is required to strengthen resilience to respond to these threats. In response to this need, the Government of Mozambique and the United Nations initiated a United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP/JP) for environmental mainstreaming and adaptation to climate change.
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  Social protection and climate resilience

  World Bank, 2012

  Awareness of the experiences of greater integration in social protection (SP), climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) has significantly increased in recent years.
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  Role of policy and institutions in local adaptation to climate change: case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012

  The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is predicted to be severely affected and socially vulnerable to climate change. This study delves into how political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards in the context of climate change in India, Pakistan, Nepal and China.
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  Participatory Budgeting: Citizen Participation for Better Public Policies

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011

  In the last two decades, Latin American countries have implemented participatory budgeting (PB) as a way to incorporate citizen perspective into budget designation, in order to increase public policies’ impact, enhance budget transparency and comply with citizens’ right to participate in their own governance.
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  Living on a Spike

  Oxfam, 2011

  The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 2010 and into early 2011, Oxfam and research partners from the Institute of Development Studies spoke to people effected in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Zambia.

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