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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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One Size Doesn't Fit All: Tailoring the international response to the national need following Vanuatu's cyclone Pam
In March 2015 Vanuatu was struck by one of the worst disasters ever experienced in the Pacific. Winds gusting up to 320 km per hour destroyed homes, infrastructure, crops and livestock and left more than half the population in need of emergency assistance
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Towards a Resilient Future: Children and Disasters
This edition of southasiadisasters.net covers a range of issues related to children and disasters. Children and climate change-related disasters feature heavily in several articles, including how children are especially vulnerable in these situations and
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Protecting Women's and Children's Health From a Changing Climate
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Planning for the Future and Adapting to Climate change in Uganda, Lessons from ACCRA
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Planning for the Future and Adapting to Climate Change in Ethiopia, Lessons from ACCRA
This briefing paper discusses ACCRA's activities in promoting pro-poor and participatory climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in planning processes. It argues that policymakers face difficult trade-offs in planning for a changing and unce
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Planning for the Future and Adapting to Climate Change in Mozambique, Lessons from ACCRA
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Planning for an Uncertain Future: Promoting adaptation to climate change through flexible and forward-looking decision making
This report outlines key findings and makes recommendations on how to better support decision-making processes for understanding climate change adaptation and implementing emerging researched approach- Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM).
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Practitioner Guidelines on the Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Sector-Based Programs
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Risk Reduction and Adaptation for East Africa: A step by step approach with and for children
The regional Risk Reduction and Adaptation capacity building package consists of three series aimed at Save the Children and partner staff in East Africa. Each series targets working with one of the key stakeholders as follows: Series 1- Children and Scho
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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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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Mapping Save the Children's Global DRR & CCA activities 2012
This is the third edition mapping our global footprint of DRR and CCA projects and programs in 2012 it also analyses and reflects on how our footprint has changed over the course of the past seven years and whether fundamental shifts have taken place in o