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Evaluation report

Evaluation of the River Basin Programme in Bangladesh

01/09/2006

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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In 1999, the River Basin Programme (RBP) started operating in Char areas, aiming to improve the living conditions and coping capacity of Char dwellers vulnerable to flooding. Oxfam GB Bangladesh worked with 11 partner NGOs to implement the RBP in eight districts in Bhrahmmaputra, Jamuna and the Ganges River Basin. The RBP aimed to reduce […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of River Basin Programme in India

01/09/2006

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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The River Basin Programme for India (FY 2003-04 to 2005-06) operated in the Indian part of the Ganges and in Brahmaputra basin areas, and is part of the regional (Nepal, India, Bangladesh) RBP. It addressed flood preparedness and the livelihoods of poor communities living in the states of Bihar, Assam and West Bengal. This final […]

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Book

Up In Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean: The threat from climate change to the environment and human development

29/08/2006

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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The report confirms that largely regular and predictable temperature and rainfall patterns, are changing, becoming less predictable and often more extreme. It catalogues the impact of climate change and environmental degradation ranging from drought in the Amazon to floods in Haiti and elsewhere; vanishing glaciers in Colombia to extreme cold in the Andes; and hurricanes, […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Flood Response Programme Georgia

01/01/2006

3 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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During the period 25-30 April 2005, a combination of torrential rains and snow melting caused heavy flooding in the Republic of Georgia. The floods caused massive landslides and mudflows that led to the damage and loss of agricultural land; destroyed homes, livestock and water drainage systems; roads and bridges swept away, isolating many communities in […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Learning About Livelihoods: Insights from Southern Africa

01/08/2002

1 documents

389 pages long

Languages: English

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The Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods project (DiMP) was developed by the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, along with partner organisations in southern Africa. This comprehensive guide to applying the livelihoods approach to the practice of disaster risk reduction – a direct outcome of the project – comprises […]

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Journal article

Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This paper discusses the implications for organisational learning of recent research on NGO activity in natural disaster mitigation and preparedness. It identifies several institutional and other barriers to NGO learning. However, personal networks in NGOs are often strong, and determined and well-placed individuals can push significant innovations through. Greater emphasis on this human factor may […]

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Journal article

Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

01/07/2002

6 pages long

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Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

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This paper argues that the ability of women to adapt to climate change pressures will be enhanced by using the ‘capabilities approach’ to direct development efforts. By using this approach, women will improve their well-being, and act more readily as agents of change within their communities. This argument is supported by previous research on gender […]

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Journal article

Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru

01/07/2002

10 pages long

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Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru

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Climatic disasters are a recurrent problem in Peru. The impacts of disasters differ between and within regions and communities. Rural upland communities, largely dependent on small-scale agriculture and natural resources for survival, are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of extreme climate events. Government policies have not only failed to mitigate this vulnerability, but have […]

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Discussion paper

Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities: Lessons from Mexico and Central America

01/01/2000

1 documents

79 pages long

Languages: English

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Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities records an exercise carried out by Oxfam GB to map out the range of natural hazards and other risks to which people in Mexico and Central America are exposed, and to relate these to the complex social, economic, political, and cultural factors that make some social sectors more vulnerable than others […]

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Journal article

Hurricane Mitch and human rights

01/05/1999

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

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When Hurricane Mitch hit South America in November 1998, it most harshly affected Honduras and Nicaragua, and most of those affected were already living in extreme poverty. The author highlights the connection between the extent of the damage from this `natural disaster’ and deforestation and bad land management practices, which greatly increased the impact of […]

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