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This document addresses the need to promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation at the local and community level for a number of interconnected reasons, including (i) changes in the...
The purpose of this work is to support this agenda by providing the first step towards: a solid evidence base on the cost effectiveness of building resilience to disasters as compared with the...
Case studies of multiple use of water in Ethiopia (MUStRAIN case 5) As part of the MUStRAIN project in Ethiopia, various approaches to water harvesting, multiple use of water and ecological...
This project built one conventional and one modern bamboo building in both Kenya and Uganda, trained over 60 people on bamboo cultivation, management and construction, and conducted feasibility,...
This programme evaluation report describes the processes of the 2009 Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) programme as a community-driven approach, including partner training in...
The Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) pilot projects showcase the activities of three countries (Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia) to identify models and promising practices for disaster risk...
One of the distinctive features of the recent aid programmes in eastern Ethiopia is the almost complete absence of any political, institutional and programmatic history. This is an unforgivable...
The paper focuses on the question of how food aid can best be targeted to the neediest households in food-insecure areas, particularly in the context of the 1993 National Policy on Disaster...
The short-term objective of the Food security research project was to provide an employment programme at the agricultural slack period to provide poorer families access to additional income to...
Eleven case studies are included in the TLS 2013 that have been implemented in response to flooding, earthquake and conflict. This year’s case studies illustrate different types of child-friendly...