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Provision and use of maternal health services among urban poor women in Kenya: what do we know and what can we do?

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / Eldis

In sub-Saharan Africa, the unprecedented population growth that started in the second half of the twentieth century has evolved into unparalleled urbanisation and an increasing proportion of urban dwellers living

Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / Eldis

This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work. The programme, which is based in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda, recognises that while all women, regardless of class,

Rediscovering ambition on forests: maintaining one of the world’s greatest assets

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / Eldis

This draft report argues that economic crises have displaced climate change and resource insecurity from the international agenda and funding for forests is currently fragmented and short-term. The report builds

Unburnable carbon 2013: wasted capital and stranded assets

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / Eldis

According to this report, despite fossil fuel reserves already far exceeding the carbon budget to avoid global warming of more than two degrees Celsius, US$674 billion was spent in 2012

Tenure of indigenous peoples territories and REDD+ as a forestry management incentive: the case of Mesoamerican countries

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / Eldis

Programmes to reduce emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation, including REDD+ and Payment for Environmental Services (PES), could represent an opportunity to strengthen processes of conservation, sustainable usage and poverty

Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / Eldis

Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. This paper argues that including measures to promote disaster risk management (DRM) in the post-2015 development goals is

Climate resilience and disaster risk management

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / CDKN Global

CDKN, in collaboration with partners across Asia, Africa and Latin America, is pleased to announce a new publication on Climate resilience and disaster risk management. It presents recent results from

FEATURE: Creating a roadmap for renewable energy

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / CDKN Global

A project in Central America aims to build on the region’s foundations as a global leader in renewable energy, help it reduce its growing reliance on fossil fuels and improve

NEWS: Governments present the building blocks to mainstreaming CBA

Tuesday, April 23 2013 / CDKN Asia

 “How can you make sure integrating climate change adaptation within development planning is not just a tick-box exercise?” On the first day of this year’s International Conference on Community Based Adaptation

Unwanted rainfall lashes hopes for Pakistan's wheat crop

Monday, April 22 2013 / AlertNet News

The government is negotiating a national insurance programme that could help protect farmers from increasingly erratic weather

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