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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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Towards the resilient future children want: a review of progress in achieving the Children’s Charter for Disaster Risk Reduction
This report aims to respond to the question of how the five priorities for disaster risk reduction (DRR), identified by children from 21 hazard-prone countries in the Children’s Charter for DRR, can be achieved, exploring the enabling factors and challeng
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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
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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: Tool 2- Risk Assessment for Design Phase
The Risk Assessment for Design Phase: Tool 2 of World Vision's Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit. This tool is used to acquire a better understanding of the disaster risk issues which threaten both the community and the gains of development programmes and p
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Climate Change as a Driver of Humanitarian Crises and Response
Feinstein International Center has published Climate Change as a Driver of Humanitarian Crises and Response, which explores the relationships between climate change, humanitarian crises, and humanitarian response through a review of published and grey lit
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Changing climate, Changing disasters: Pathways towards integration
A guide from the Strengthening Climate Resilience consortium (IDS, Plan and Christian Aid), focusing on a Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach that offers different ‘routes’ to integration (and indicators to track progress) for agencies
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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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Children's Charter- an action plan for disaster risk reduction for children by children
This is a charter for children and by children. It aims to raise awareness of the need to put children at the heart of efforts to prepare for disasters before they strike, and calls for stronger commitment from governments, donors and agencies to take app
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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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How to Integrate DRR and CCA into Education
This chapter provides practical advice and examples of how to integrate Disaster Risk Reduction into Save the Children programs. The chapter discusses how Disaster Risk Reduction can be incorporated within each of the pillars of the Comprehensive School S
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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