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Development Progress – Urban Poverty: how should cities grow and function?

16 Jun 2015
This animation looks at urban poverty in the light of increasing urbanisation across the world and asks how policy makers can include communities to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal to “Make Cities and Human Settlements inclusive, safe,...
Video, Urban Resilience
Assessment or evaluation

Nepal Earthquake Lessons 2015

16 Jun 2015
This lessons paper aims to assist operational agencies responding to the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake. It provides 17 lessons drawn from experience of previous comparable disasters, based on evaluations, research papers and interviews with operatio...
Assessment or evaluation, Earthquake, Urban Resilience
Video

Think Tsunami

16 Jun 2015
Excellent video, in Japanese with English subtitles, on the effects of powerful Tsunami and how we can best prepare for them. The video also highlights a lot of myths and mistruths about Tsunami behaviour that must be weeded out if lives are to be sa...
Video, Tsunami
Report

The effects of climate change on internal and international migration: implications for developing countries

15 Jun 2015
This synthesis paper informs the development community about the effects of climate change on migration patterns within and out of developing countries, concentrating on the economic aspects of migration. Empirical evidence shows that people in devel...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation
Report

Becoming Climate Resilient: An Executive Business Case for Climate Resilience

15 Jun 2015
“We believe this [An Executive Business Case for Climate Resilience] is important because the business community can be more agile than governments. It can move quickly to assess risk, promote systems and technology, and set standards for resil...
Report, Business Preparedness, Climate Change Adaptation
Report

Sustainable Cities Index: 2015

15 Jun 2015
The purpose of this report, our first Sustainable Cities Index, is to take 50 of the world’s most prominent cities and look at how viable they are as places to live, their environmental impact, their financial stability, and how these elements comp...
Report, Urban Resilience
Other type of resource

Climate 2020

15 Jun 2015
Released at the opening of the Bonn Climate Change Conference on 1 June, Climate 2020 builds on two prior reports by UNA-UK entitled Global Development Goals, which focused exclusively on the post-2015 development agenda. With articles from over ...
Other type of resource, Climate Change Adaptation
Awareness material, Case Study

The financial management of flood risk

15 Jun 2015
The purpose of this paper is to examine best practices and available models for managing the financial impact of floods. The paper (i) identifies key issues specific to flood risk management, (ii) evaluates international experience with public and...
Awareness material, Case Study, Flood
Assessment or evaluation

Global Disaster Politics Post Sendai

12 Jun 2015
As the global costs of disasters continue to rise, a new global framework for disaster risk reduction was negotiated at a high-level conference in Sendai, Japan in March 2015. Newfound global attention to the topic increased the difficulty of negotia...
Assessment or evaluation, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

E-Voucher Food Card Program by WFP/Turkish Red Crescent

12 Jun 2015
Turkish Red Crescent Society partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to launch the e-voucher food card programme to assist thousands of Syrians who were under international protection in Turkey. The e-voucher Food Card works like...
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management

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