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  Evidence from the frontlines of climate change: loss and damage to communities despite coping and adaptation

  United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012

  This study presents empirical findings from fieldwork around the world examining loss and damage caused by global warming. The report begins by defining and contextualising the emerging discourse on assessing, quantifying and reacting to loss and damage. Key findings from the five case study sites include the following.
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  Safe drinking water: who is willing to pay the price?

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012

  This briefing, the second issue of the Evidence Matters series, distills policy relevant evidence from a recent 3ie systematic review ‘Willingness to pay for cleaner water in less developed countries". The review summarises research from Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. Some of the lessons learned include:
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  Forests and water

  Unasylva, FAO, 2008

  Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests.
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  The reality of water provision in urban Africa

  International Policy Network, 2006

  This paper examines water and sanitation delivery in urban settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper draws on examples from several African countries including Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Ivory Coast, and Tanzania.
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  Higher prices are not enough to improve Kenyan water services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Neither public utilities nor small-scale private service providers are serving urban Kenyans well. Water use levels are low, prices are high and service is dismal for both poor and non-poor households. The findings challenge current prescriptions, especially the belief that ‘correct’ (i.e. high) prices and competition can automatically and dramatically improve service delivery.
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  Drawers of water II: 30 years of change in domestic water use and environmental health in east Africa: Kenya country study

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  This paper discusses changes in domestic water use over three decades in twelve rural and urban sites in Kenya. The rural and urban sites reflect the diversity of environments, living conditions and water service levels found throughout Kenya.The paper findings reveal both positive and negative changes in water use, in terms of levels and types of use, reliability, access and cost.