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Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

23/11/2015

15 pages long

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Gender equality, resilience to climate change, and the design of livestock projects for rural livelihoods

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Currently, there is growing interest in how livestock projects can contribute to resilience to the effects of climate change. In this article we recommend a shift away from gross productivity to sustainability, via the use of thrifty local breeds, with an additional emphasis on improving survival of young animals. These animals, due to their local […]

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Journal article

What if gender became an essential, standard element of Vulnerability Assessments?

23/11/2015

15 pages long

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What if gender became an essential, standard element of Vulnerability Assessments?

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Vulnerability Assessments (VAs) can be useful tools for providing key insights for nongovernment organisations and other development actors, including governments. Not only can they provide an extensive, ‘landscape-wide’ understanding of vulnerability and its underlying causes in a specific context, but this understanding can be jointly owned by all participants. They can thus be used for […]

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Education resource

Making the Change – Female Climate Fighters: Learn how climate change impacts on people’s lives

23/11/2015

4 documents

Languages: English

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Climate change is already having a huge impact on millions of people all over the world. These resources for ages 11-16 use a film narrated by poet Roger McGough to look at how women in Bolivia, Philippines, Zimbabwe and the UK have been affected by climate change, and how they are responding. Watch the film […]

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Issue briefing

El Nino Key Messages: Urgent action now can prevent major suffering and loss

20/11/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, followed by the development of possibly the most powerful El Niño on record. This briefing makes the case to urgently scale up humanitarian response in countries already in […]

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Briefing paper

A Different Route: Reimagining the idea of prosperity in Asia

12/11/2015

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Yet millions of people remain poor, while a handful gets richer and richer. Asia needs a development model that leaves no one behind: not the workers and farmers, who act as the driving force behind Asia’s growth – and certainly not the women, who […]

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Briefing note

Climate Change Spending in Ethiopia: Recommendations to bridge the funding gap for climate financing

01/11/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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The Government of Ethiopia considers climate change to be one of its priorities in responding to the country’s long-term development needs. The nation’s widely acclaimed Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy has called for annual spending of $7.5bn. With federal budgetary resources for climate change relevant actions estimated to be in the order of $440m […]

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Issue briefing

Fair Shares: A civil society equity review of INDCs

19/10/2015

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Negotiations towards a new climate deal to be agreed at the UN climate conference in Paris in December have included voluntary climate targets by countries around the world in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). A total of 146 countries, representing almost 87 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have so far submitted their […]

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Briefing note

Africa’s Smallholders Adapting to Climate Change: The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers

14/10/2015

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance. Wealthy countries have committed to helping countries in Africa to adapt to climate change, but few women producers are feeling […]

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Media briefing

Entering Uncharted Waters: El Nino and the threat to food security

01/10/2015

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of poor people in Southern Africa, Asia and Central America face hunger and poverty this year and next because of droughts and erratic rains as global temperatures reach new records, and because of the onset of a powerful El Nino – the climate phenomenon that develops in the tropical Pacific and brings extreme weather […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Introducing the SWIFT Tool for Environmental Assessment and Risk Screening for Rural Water Supply

01/08/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Achieving long-term increases in rural water-supply coverage depends on many factors. A new tool developed for the SWIFT Consortium supports environmental assessment and risk screening activitiesfor rural water supplies in low-income contexts. When conducting a detailed hydrogeological survey is not an option, the SWIFT tool provides simple guidance to help identify and mitigate environmental risks to long-term water […]

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