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    Climate change, water resources and WASH: a scoping study

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2011
    It has been predicted that water will be the primary medium through which early climate change impacts will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. However, scientific analysis and water policy do not appear to be giving enough attention to impacts on water resources and water-dependent services. This report endeavours to fill in some of the gaps. Its broad objectives are to:
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    Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of the Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise Impacts on The Cayman Island's Tourism Sector

    2011
    This vulnerability and capacity assessment examines the Cayman Islands' susceptibility to climate change in light of its physical chanracteristics and the predicted scenarios. Specifically, it analyses how climate change is slated to affect the various sectors of the island's economy, particularly tourism, as well as physical infastructure.
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    What science? science needs for climate change information and awareness building: lessons from the Caribbean

    Pacific Disaster Net, 2011
    This article speaks to the essential role of science, and moreover the understanding of scientific concepts and topics, when planning for development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
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    Cuba Weathering the Storm: Lessons in Risk Reduction from Cuba

    Oxfam America, 2004
    This report hopes to present a comprehensive overview of the Cuban model of risk reduction in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery and explore what may be adapted from this model in other countries. This report focuses on specific recommendations for Central America.
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    Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

    CCRIF is a risk pooling facility, owned, operated and registered in the Caribbean for Caribbean governments.
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    Assessing the Effectiveness of Climate Adaptation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011
    As governments and other agencies spend more money on adaptation to climate change they want to know that their investments are effective — that adaptation will keep development on track, that there is a fair distribution of costs and benefits, and that climate resilience is being built. But monitoring and evaluating adaptation policy and practice is not easy.
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    Improving Information for Community-Based Adaptation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011
    Community-based adaptation aims to empower local people to cope with and plan for the impacts of climate change. Conventional approaches to planning adaptation rely on ‘expert’ advice and credible ‘science’ from authoritative information providers such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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    IFAD Strategic Framework 2011-2015

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
    IFAD’s fourth Strategic Framework covers the period 2011-2015. It presents IFAD’s overarching goal, objectives and thematic areas of focus. It also articulates the principles of engagement that will guide operations and how IFAD will deliver against the framework. IFAD’s unique mandate is improving rural food security and nutrition, and enabling rural women and men to overcome poverty.
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    Climate Change Latin America and the Caribbean: Risks for the Microfinance Sector and Opportunities for Adaptation

    Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2011
    This brief, authored by María Elena Gutierrez and Xavier Mommens, highlights the potential for microfinance to support climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the risks that climate change imposes on microfinance schemes.
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    Social Sustainability of EU-Approved Voluntary Schemes for Biofuels: Implications for Rural Livelihoods

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2011
    The rapid expansion of biofuel production and consumption in response to global climate mitigation commitments and fuel security concerns has raised concerns over the social and environmental sustainability of biofuel feedstock production, processing and trade.

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