Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

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Learning network on the uptake of climate and disaster risk assessments

The overall purpose of the project was to better achieve informed decisions on disaster risk management and climate change adaptation through a more adequate uptake of disaster and climate risk assessments.

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Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in the transport sector in Colombia: Vulnerability assessment of the national primary road network

This project aimed to provide the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Environment of Colombia with a vulnerability and risk analysis of the national level primary road system.

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Strengthening of the capacity of 'Invest in Cartagena'

The aims of this project were to:

Resource
19th May 2017
Inside Story: Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, India (Hindi) Gorakhpur District is recognised as one of the most flood-prone districts in Eastern Uttar Prades
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12th May 2017
Climate change and Uttarakhand A film by Acclimatise explores the experience of the state of Uttarakhand, which began working on a climate change plan in 2011 with support from CDKN. A vulnerability and risk assessment was initiated in 2014 and a community level analysis helped form the basis of a policy guidance document called the 'agenda for climate action'.
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Promoting regional dialogue around the adaptation-based-mitigation approach in El Salvador

The project’s long term goal and ambition is to strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacity of the region’s communities in addition to enhancing their livelihoods and development opportunities by promoting Mitigation based adaptation (MbA) as a new framework for action.

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7th May 2017
What makes a LEDS leader? Reflections from the Global NDC Conference 2017 Mairi Dupar reports from the Global NDC Conference 2017 in Berlin, 2-6 May. and reflects on the some of the human qualities shared by the 'climate champions' who are now delivering Nationally Determined Contributions in their countries.
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28th April 2017
Beat the Heat CDKN launches a new film that tells the story of how heat action plans are saving lives and reducing ill health in India's cities - and how the promising and practical approaches are being adopted by other Indian cities.
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26th April 2017
The changing risk of extreme weather: Insights from Raising Risk Awareness Raising Risk Awareness held a three-day learning event, hosted in Nairobi, to bring together 65 members of the Raising Risk Awareness team from across the globe. A series of short films were produced on the takeaway messages of the learning event and the importance of climate science attribution.
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Water Resilience and Climate Resilience in the Horn of Africa Reference

This CDKN project explores potential opportunities in designing a comprehensive, regional water security and climate resilience programme for IGAD.

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31st March 2017
Climate change and gender: Are we risking perverse gender outcomes? Gavin Quibell and Lene Lundsgaard argue that delivering more climate-resilient infrastructure must be accompanied by the protection and enhancement of women's existing roles and autonomy in society.
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Enhancing Direct Access to Adaptation Funding in Kenya

This project is designed to enhance Kenya’s prospects to access international sources of finance, by offering technical support to the Government of Kenya to develop an investment-grade adaptation project pipeline and proposals, a country-driven approach with a long-term programmatic view.