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  Resilience Resources: RABIT - Resilience Assessment Benchmarking and Impact

  Nexus for ICTs, Climate Change and Development, 2016

  This page provides guidance materials relating to RABIT: the Resilience Assessment Benchmarking and Impact Toolkit.  This enables the measurement of resilience baselines, and also measurement of the impact on resilience of development interventions; particularly introduction of ICTs.  It focuses on resilience in low-income communities.
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  Cooperation for a Water Wise World – Partnerships for Sustainable Development

  Stockholm International Water Institute, 2013

  This is the report from World Water Week 2013, held in Stockholm 1-6 September 2013. It provides input into the discussions at the event which was themed ‘Water Cooperation: Building Partnerships’.
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  Access to climate change information and support services by the vulnerable groups in semi-arid Kenya for adaptive capacity development

  African Crop Science Society, 2012

  Despite being projected to face the greatest impact of climate change, vulnerable people of the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa have inadequate access to the support services and information they need to build their adaptive capacity to an effective level.
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  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and climate change adaptation and mitigation: the case of Ghana

  International Telecommunication Union, 2012

  Using Ghana as a case study, this report presents the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation. It provides concrete lessons learned and makes practical suggestions aimed at developing country decision-makers and practitioners.
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  Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)

  The Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD) promotes people-centred sustainable development by innovation, application and advancement of appropriate scientific, technical and local k
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  ICT-Enabled Development of Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  Climate change and related stressors are posing an increasing challenge to livelihoods in low-income communities. Those communities need to develop the capacity to adapt to climate change: coping with short-term shocks and long-term trends. ICTs will form an essential part of that development.
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  Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana

  International Journal of Communication, 2011

  Community radio is well recognised as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities.
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  Linking ICT with climate action for a low-carbon economy

  The Broadband Commission, 2012

  Governments can accelerate transformation to a low carbon economy by promoting and integrating ICT within climate change policy. This view is presented by the Broadband Commission in this report based on interviews and supporting material from more than twenty leaders and experts in the field.
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  Exploring the 'Gender ICT Climate Change' Nexus in Development: From Digital Divide to Digital Empowerment

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2012

  The issue of how gender influences the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in tackling climate change is under-researched. This paper offers a systematic review of how gender shapes, and is shaped by, the interaction of ICTs and climate change. It explains why, and how, women tend to be more constrained than men from using ICTs in tackling climate change.
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  e-Adaptation within agricultural livelihoods in Colombia's high mountain regions

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2012

  Colombia's agricultural communities have been severely affected by the impacts of climatic uncertainty and volatility. These communities operate within contexts characterised by multiple resource constraints (e.g.

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