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Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
There is no scientific ambiguity to the fact that the world’s climate is warming and that this warming over the past 50 years is attributable in part to man’s activities. There is a wide consensus that this warming will lead to changing rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, increased spread of tropical disease, loss of biodiversity and increased frequency and amplitude of weather related natural disasters. Children are particularly at risk in a disaster and vulnerable to the incremental impacts of climate change. It is essential that their immediate and longer-term survival, protection and developmental needs are considered in any activities to prepare for or mitigate a potential disaster, or adapt to the negative impacts of longer-term climatic trends. Communities and local authorities need to listen to children to find out what risks they might face and how they might respond to them.
CCA programs are activities which aim to make adjustments in natural and human systems in response to actual or expected climate change and their effects. For Save the Children, adaptation is principally about practical measures in programming, policy and advocacy which reduce vulnerabilities or increase resilience of children and their communities from the negative effects of climate change. Disaster Risk Reduction and CCA are not mutually exclusive but in fact interdependent; a CCA project may be just as vulnerable to natural hazards as any other project and therefore needs a DRR component to protect the CCA investment. To address the risks and uncertainty predicted by climate change, both DRR and CCA analysis and programming must attempt to take account of the unpredictability of what may happen in the future as the planet continues to get warmer.
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Livelihoods at the limit: Reducing the risk of disasters and adapting to climate change. Evidence from the consolidated Household Economy Analysis database
This report draws on the compiled Household Economy Analysis dataset and analysis tools to answer some of the most pressing questions about disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in a range of livelihood contexts:- Which single shock has th
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Protect my future: Why child protection matters in the post 2015 agenda
This inter-agency paper is the culmination of a series on the links between child protection and major development goals, designed to feed into the thematic debates around the post-2015 development framework. The alarming impacts of child protection failu
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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Introduction
The World Vision Asia Pacific team launches a much awaited Disaster Reduction (DRR) toolkit that will refine their on-going disaster management field work. This user-friendly DRR toolkit is designed to assist field staff in undertaking the integration of
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Disaster Risk Reduction World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Tool 1- Initial Risk Assessment
Initial Risk Assessment: Tool 1 of World Vision's Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit. The Initial Risk Assessment Tool is to be used during the LEAP assessment (Learning through Evaluation with Accountability & Planning). This tool aims to assist Annual Deve
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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Annex B
World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Annex B- Compendium of Indicators. The Compendium of Indicators for Disaster Risk Reduction is developed based on the Compendium of Indicators for Child Well-being Outcomes (CWBO). This Annex shows tables with
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Girls and Climate Change Package of activities
These activity plans are intended to help explore how climate change can have different impacts on boys and girls. A brief is also provided to give teachers insight into the topic and a taster of some of the issues facing girls in relation to climate chan
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Tackling the limits to adaptation: An international framework to address ‘Loss And Damage’ from climate change impacts
The current and future scale of climate change implies serious loss and damage, especially to the lives and livelihoods of those who are poor, most vulnerable and least to blame. Still developed country governments are failing to act with sufficient emiss
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Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate chan
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Enough food for everyone: The need of UK action on global hunger
One in eight people on this planet are living with the pain of hunger. More than 2 million children die every year because they can’t get enough to eat, and millions more face a life of lost potential, stunting and pain. And yet our planet provides enough
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The role of local institutions in adaptive processes to climate variability: The cases of southern Ethiopia and southern Mali
Farmers and herders in arid regions of Africa face serious challenges in adapting to climate change and variability. They are highly exposed to climate stresses, especially drought, but adaptation to climate change is far from being a clear-cut biophysica
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Breaking the Mould: Transforming the economic development paradigm
Since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed more than a decade ago, the world has made dramatic progress in its fight against poverty. Some 600 million people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, 56 million more children go to school tod
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Children and Climate Change
This overview report, commissioned by Save the Children Norway, presents an analysis and summary of contemporary research concerning the relationship between children and climate change. Current research reveals that, among children, the poor, the young a