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Community Based Protection in Liberia

03 Feb 2015
In 2014 Liberia suffered a deadly outbreak of Ebola that spread quickly throughout the country and claimed the lives of more than three thousand people. Although recent weeks have seen a considerable drop in the number of confirmed Ebola cases, Liber...
Video, Communicable Disease
Data set

GAIN – Global Adaptation Index

03 Feb 2015
The ND-GAIN Index, a project of the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), summarizes a country’s vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges in combination with its readiness to improve resilience. It aims...
Data set, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
Guidance material

Applying resilience thinking: Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems

02 Feb 2015
Over the past decades, few concepts have gained such prominence as resilience, the capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop. There has been an explosion of research into ways to promote or undermine the resilience of ...
Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

Climate Risk Information: Connecting the dots between Maasais, national and international actors

30 Jan 2015
This video exercise is a bottom up participatory process that empowered a Maasai Community to craft and send their message out about their reality and need for climate information. It is an attempt to connect the dots between the ground and the highe...
Video, Climate Change Adaptation
Research

Resilience Projects as Experiments:Implementing climate change resilience in Asian cities

30 Jan 2015
The capacity of actors and institutions to learn and reorganize is central to the resilience of complex systems, particularly in the context of rapidly urbanizing cities. A process of qualitative, reflective research among practitioners within the As...
Research, Climate Change Adaptation
Report

Reducing Urban Poverty – A new generation of ideas

29 Jan 2015
Recognizing a need to develop and strengthen urban-focused practitioner and policy-making ties with academia, and disseminate evidence-based development programming, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project, USAID’s Urban ...
Report, Urban Resilience
Report

Acting Today For Tomorrow- Climate Resilient Pacific Islands

26 Jan 2015
Pacific island countries continue to be among the most vulnerable in the world: they combine high exposure to frequent and damaging natural hazards with low capacity to manage the resulting risks. Their vulnerability is exacerbated by poorly planned ...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material

Building Climate Resilience in the Agriculture Sector of Asia and the Pacific

26 Jan 2015
Climate change is threatening food production systems and therefore the livelihoods and food security of billions of people who depend on agriculture in the Asia and Pacific region (hereafter, Asia and the Pacific). Agriculture is the sector most vul...
Guidance material, Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material, Video

Rapid Assessment for Markets: IFRC Guidelines

21 Jan 2015
The Rapid Assessment for Markets (RAM) is an instrument allowing humanitarian practitioners with limited market expertise and time to develop a rapid and basic understanding of key markets within the first few days after a shock. The RAM is desi...
Guidance material, Video, Post-Disaster Recovery, Urban Resilience
Video

Communicable Diseases Explained

19 Jan 2015
Communicable Diseases Explained
Video, Communicable Disease

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