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Briefing paper

Ready or Not: Pakistan’s resilience to disasters one year on from the floods

26/07/2011

6 documents

36 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The floods that hit Pakistan in 2010 were the worst in the country’s history. The humanitarian response achieved remarkable successes in minimising the immediate loss of life and providing relief to millions of people. However, it could have been better: more than 800,000 families remain without permanent shelter and more than a million people remain […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack

08/07/2011

5 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. Unequal power relations between women and men […]

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Briefing paper

Six Months Into the Floods: Resetting Pakistan’s priorities through reconstruction

26/01/2011

4 documents

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The monsoon floods that began in Pakistan in July 2010 caused a colossal disaster. Thanks to the collective efforts of the Pakistani Government, UN agencies, international NGOs, and local relief organisations, the response has achieved major successes and seen millions of Pakistanis receive vital emergency relief. Six months into the floods, the disaster is not […]

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Discussion paper

Towards a characterisation of adaptive capacity: A framework for analysing adaptive capacity at the local level

01/12/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Interest is growing in supporting vulnerable people and communities to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, and there is a general assumption that there are close links between development and adaptation. Yet our understanding of the impacts that development interventions have on adaptive capacity at the local level remains limited. Most development interventions […]

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Case study

Kenya: Reducing disaster risk in Turkana District

12/10/2010

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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The Turkana district lies in northwestern Kenya, bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. Pastoralism is the main economic activity due to the arid environment. The region is geographically isolated and has a low population density, which makes it challenging and expensive to work with communities. The region has suffered from limited and often inappropriate investment […]

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Research report

Climate Change Adaptation: Enabling people living in poverty to adapt

29/04/2010

5 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change is fast pushing the poorest and most marginalized communities beyond their capacity to respond. This report draws on case studies from around the world and on Oxfam’s experience working with rural communities. It sets out what is needed to enable people living in poverty to adapt to climate change, and a range of […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation: A Learning Companion

01/04/2010

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This Learning Companion aims to provide Oxfam programme staff with the basis for incorporating gender analysis and women’s rights into disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) programming. Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction are priorities for Oxfam GB, as are strengthening women’s rights and gender equality.

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Briefing note

Reconstructing Haiti

26/01/2010

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

On January 12, 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti ten miles from the capital, Port-au- Prince. Already the poorest country in the western hemisphere with 76% of the population living on less than $2 per day, Haiti could ill afford this blow to its fragile development. Rapid deforestation, a growing population, increasing unemployment, corruption, […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Disaster Risk Reduction in Drought Cycle Management: A learning companion

19/01/2010

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This Companion aims to support Oxfam staff to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) into programmes where drought is a significant hazard. In East Africa, this work is commonly called drought cycle management (DCM). Droughts have traditionally been viewed as one-off disasters requiring an emergency response. Typically, emergency responses focused on the delivery of food aid […]

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Briefing paper

Band Aids and Beyond: Tackling disasters in Ethiopia 25 years after the famine

22/10/2009

3 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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In 1984, a massive humanitarian operation was launched in response to famine in Ethiopia. Thousands of lives were saved. Twenty-five years on, as droughts become dangerously common, we have to look beyond the traditional ‘band-aid’ responses. For Ethiopians it is more sustainable and dignified to identify and tackle the risk of disaster rather than simply […]

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