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Research report

Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia

30/08/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation
Community engagement
Disaster risk reduction
Early warning system
Gender Analysis
Indigenous knowledge
Latin America and the Caribbean
Mother Earth
Natural hazards
Resilience
Sustainability
Traditional practices
Urban planning
Women's empowerment

Overview

This case study takes a retrospective look at the 2010-11 Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO) Small-Scale Disaster Project in La Paz and the context within which it took place. Our research found that absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities can be fostered by iterative development processes. It also demonstrated that disaster […]

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