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Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials

The Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials provides city stakeholders with the information and tools necessary to design a climate resilience strategy. The Climate Resilience Framework (CRF) is an analytical, systems-based approach to building resilience to climate change in urban areas. The goal of this structured framework is to build overall, networked city resilience capable of […]

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IRI Maproom: Forecasts in Context

Collection of maps, developed by the IRI and the IFRC, that provides information for humanitarian decision-making  and early action around the world. The collection includes the following types of maps which are updated daily: Six-Day forecasts: These maps show where heavy rainfall is expected in the next six days, and how much rainfall is expected.

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Review of Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) use in relation to climate change and urban risk issues

This report was commissioned by the IFRC to re-examine the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment process in the context of increased institutional experience in using VCA, along with changing risk patterns. In particular the review is to assess the relevance of VCA for dealing with urban risks and climate change. It looks closely at the continued

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Strengthening responses to climate variability in South Asia

A report from DfID and USAID looking at the root causes of vulnerability and the opportunities for strengthening resilience to combined risks of climate change and conflict in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Strengthening responses to climate variability in South Asia, April 2013 http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/ClimateChange_2013_DiscussionPaper_XSum_EN.pdf

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Scoping Assessment on Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines

The scoping assessment aims to: review existing policies, institutional mechanisms, mandates and specific programs for, and the state of knowledge and initiatives toward adaptation in the Philippines; define a process for the development of an institutional mechanism for the potential operationalization of the a Local Government Unit Adaptation Knowledge Platform in the Philippines; lay down

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Health Risk Management in a changing climate

Report of a Red Cross Red Crescent project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, that has “explored ways of integrating climate with health programming in Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Vietnam, approaching the issue from three angles: the priorities of communities; integrating climate factors with operations themselves; and reducing risk.” Health Risk Management in a changing climate

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Games for a New Climate: Experiencing the Complexity of Future Risks

Report of a task force at the Pardee Center “to explore the potential of participatory, game-based processes for accelerating learning, fostering dialogue, and promoting action through real-world decisions affecting the longer-range future, with an emphasis on humanitarian and development work, particularly involving climate risk management.” Games for a New Climate: Experiencing the Complexity of Future

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Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Guide

The guide presents experience from more than 30 Red Cross Red Crescent national socieites in six thematic modules: Getting started, Dialogues, Communications, Disaster management, Community-based disaster risk reduction and Health. Online intro to the Climate Guide, English version of Climate Guide http://www.climatecentre.org/site/publications/85/red-cross-red-crescent-climate-guide, http://www.climatecentre.org/downloads/File/reports/RCRC_climateguide.pdf

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