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  Science for humanitarian emergencies and resilience (SHEAR) scoping study: Annex 2 - The current status of early warning systems and risk assessments in Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia – A literature review

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  The report forms part of the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) scoping study, which aims to provide the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) with evidence-based recommendations on future research priorities for risk assessments and early warning systems. The focus is on weather-related hazards (i.e.
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  Can formal banking raise the incomes of the poor?

  Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2011

  This brief clarifies that formal banking services may be able to reduce market imperfections and financial constraints, creating the opportunity for higher incomes. However, limited supply and demand may constrain the growth of formal banking services. The paper finds that:
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  Reducing vulnerability of island coasts

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2014

  This paper is about the reducing the vulnerability of coasts through appropriate adaptation measures. This is the focus of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme which has four coastal zone demonstration projects, in the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa and Vanuatu.
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  Modernizing China in the Olympic spotlight: China’s national identity and the 2008 Beijing Olympiad

  Princeton University Library, 2006

  The XXIX Olympiad is coming to Beijing at a critical juncture of the world history of globalization and the Chinese history of grand socioeconomic 
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  Forests and climate change after Warsaw: An Asia-Pacific perspective

  The Centre for People and Forests, 2014

  The outcomes of the 19th Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are expected to have a significant impact on developments in the field of forests and climate change over the coming year. In February 2014, RECOFTC brought together 11 climate change and forestry experts in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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  Home Grown School Feeding and social protection

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2010

  This paper argues that Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes have great potential to deliver various social protection benefits, not only for schoolchildren and their families but also for food supplying farmers.
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  Gender and the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) programme: Assessment and Action Plan

  Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2014

  This report summarises two key documents produced by Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) as part of the drive to address gender. The first, a Gender Assessment of the programme, was carried out in 2012 to assess the level and degree that the programme addressed gender.
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  Current status of social forestry in climate change mitigation and adaptation in the ASEAN region

  The Centre for People and Forests, 2014

  Produced by The Center for People and Forests, this situational report examines the current status of social forestry in climate mitigation and adaptation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and aims to update the Initial Baseline Assessment on Social Forestry and Climate Change published in 2010.
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  Implementing the responsibility to protect: new directions for international peace and security?

  Igarape Institute, 2013

  The international peace and security architecture is undergoing a profound renovation in the twenty first century. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is being re-evaluated from political and operational perspectives, while the Responsibility while Protecting (RwP), a Brazilian initiative, can be a new direction for international peace and security.
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  After the storm: Haiti’s coming food crisis

  Igarape Institute, 2012

  The 2012 hurricane season generated profound impacts on Haiti’s population by reducing food security and limiting basic service provision. This paper highlights a number of possible entry-points to mitigate future risks of hunger.

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