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Card sheet for 'The Upstream-Downstream Game' showing four rows of gameplay cards — 8 yellow 'Maize' cards (Water Cost: 2, Money: 2), 4 blue 'Dam' cards (-2 Water from Flood), 8 tan 'Foundation' cards (required for advanced buildings), and 4 gray 'Well' cards (+1 Water if needed) — followed by a black inventory panel listing game pieces (player boards, farm improvement cards, dice) and per-player board components (tree tokens, maize markers, dam markers, foundation markers, well markers, and point markers).

The Upstream-Downstream Game

The game centres on climate-related information in decision-making at the community level, and how neighbouring upstream and downstream communities can work together to manage consequences of flood, drought and deforestation.  Upstream Downstream is an interactive serious game developed to help participants explore the complex relationships between natural resource management, environmental stewardship, and community resilience. Originally […]

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The Gender and Climate Game

A participatory activity to support experiential learning and dialogue on the differential vulnerability of women and men facing climate variability and change. Players first take on the role of subsistence farmers facing changing risks — then ‘walk in the shoes’ of a specific gender role. Experiencing the consequences of individual and collective decisions, rich discussions

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Programmatic directions for the Red Cross and Red Crescent in building urban community resilience in the Asia Pacific Region

The Asia Pacific Zone of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched this study in order to identify a role for the Red Cross and Red Crescent in urban community resilience programming. The study is completed by EMI (Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative) in 2011. Two inter-linked objectives guided the research process: To analyse the urban

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