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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
Video

You probably don’t have Ebola if…

19 Jan 2015
Ebola is harder to catch than you think in countries outside the three main outbreak countries, namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Ebola may dominate the news, but you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than to catch Ebola. Unlike influ...
Video, Communicable Disease
Video

Vous n’avez probablement pas Ebola si…

16 Jan 2015
Ebola is harder to catch than you think in countries outside the three main outbreak countries, namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Ebola may dominate the news, but you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than to catch Ebola. Unlike influ...
Video, Communicable Disease
Video

Probablemente no tengas Ebola si…

16 Jan 2015
Ebola is harder to catch than you think in countries outside the three main outbreak countries, namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Ebola may dominate the news, but you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than to catch Ebola. Unlike influ...
Video, Communicable Disease
Report

Global Risk Report 2015

15 Jan 2015
10th edition of this Report from the World Economic Forum. It looks at a range risk trends in the context of ongoing political, economic, social, environmental, and technological challenges. Source: World Economic Forum, 2015 Global Risk Report 201...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Risk Assessment
Video

Namibia Drought Needs Assessment 2013

12 Jan 2015
Urgent humanitarian assistance is needed in Namibia as the impact and effects of drought worsen, leaving people struggling to find food, suffering from malnutrition and selling their assets just to survive.
Video, Drought, Livelihoods and Food Security
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