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Community-based resilience-building: A UNDP guidance note

05 May 2025
Over the past several decades, UNDP and many other organizations have implemented many community-based initiatives to reduce people’s vulnerability to a range of shocks and hazards. Experiences and reviews of lessons learned, however, have pointed ...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Research

Evaluating Nature-based Solutions as urban resilience and climate adaptation tools: A meta-analysis of their benefits on heatwaves and floods

21 Jan 2025
Extreme weather events driven by climate change threaten the resilience of urban structures and urban dwellers. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are an effective tool to reduce urban vulnerability to climate risks and, at the same time, develop more live...
Research, Climate Change Adaptation, Nature-based solutions, Urban Resilience
Report

Under the weather: Stories from communities on the front lines of climate and health adaptation

13 Dec 2024
The health impacts of climate change are happening now. This report tells the stories of communities in three countries across Africa. Burkina Faso, Malawi and Somalia were chosen because they are among the African countries most vulnerable to climat...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Report

Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice 2024

11 Dec 2024
Author: Global Center on Adaptation This year’s Stories of Resilience lays out the need for urgent and rapid reform in how global and national climate finance is delivered, in the power dynamics between providers and recipients, and in how success ...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Financing, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Awareness material, Briefs and Fact Sheets

Fact Sheet: Coastal City Resilience and Extreme Heat Action Project (CoCHAP)

11 Dec 2024
The Coastal City Resilience and Extreme Heat Action Project (CoCHAP) Fact Sheet outlines the progress and objectives of this initiative led by the IFRC with funding from USAID/BHA and technical support from the American Red Cross and the RCRC Climate...
Awareness material, Briefs and Fact Sheets, Climate Change Adaptation, Community Engagement and Accountability, Flood, Heat Wave, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Event recording

Climate and YOUth Summit 2024 Programme

09 Dec 2024
Access the full array of the Climate and YOUth Summit 2024’s programme, including session summaries, timetables, and links.
Event recording, Climate Change Adaptation, Youth Disaster Preparedness
Assessment or evaluation, Guidance material, Policy and Strategy, Report, Research

From Informality to Impact – The Untapped Potential of Scaling Urban Resilience Innovation in Informality

05 Dec 2024
From Informality to Impact – The Untapped Potential of Scaling Urban Resilience Innovation in Informality Policy and Investment Briefing Note 9 November 2024 Currently only 1.2% of urban climate investments flow to climate change adaptation a...
Assessment or evaluation, Guidance material, Policy and Strategy, Report, Research, Anticipatory action, Business Preparedness, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Cash, Climate Change Adaptation, Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), Hazard, Urban Resilience
Case Study, Guidance material, Report

Co-designing solutions for urban resilience action

05 Dec 2024
Coastal Cities and Extreme Heat Project (CoCHAP): Learning Product #1 – Co-Designing Solutions for Urban Resilience This learning product from the CoCHAP project provides an overview of the co-design process for developing solutions to risks and ch...
Case Study, Guidance material, Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Urban Resilience
Report

World Cities Report 2024

08 Nov 2024
Cities as Hubs for Climate Action Cities are both the victims of climate change and among its worst offenders: though disproportionately exposed to its impacts, they are also responsible for generating a significant share of global greenhouse gas emi...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Urban Resilience
Research

Community-developed Early Warning and Early Action Systems: The Case of South Omo Communities in Ethiopia

21 Oct 2024
Authors: Tirsit Sahledingle and Desalegn Amsalu, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University This research delves into the Indigenous early warning and early action systems developed by the agro-pastoralist communities in South Omo, Ethio...
Research, Climate Change Adaptation, Early Warning Systems, Flood, Livelihoods and Food Security
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