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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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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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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
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The Role of Community-Based natural Resource Management in Climate Change Adaptation in Ethiopia: Assessing participatory initiatives with pastoral communities
This paper describes the methodology developed to assess what role selected community-based/participatory natural resource management initiatives undertaken by Save the Children with pastoral communities in the lowlands of Borana and Guji zones in Ethiopi
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The Challenges of Climate Change: Children on the front line
In late 2012, the UNICEF Office of Research produced a document of their online debate ‘Research Watch on Climate Change and Children’. Due to popular interest, the Office expanded the project into this e-book, which is a compilation of publications relat
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Internal Displacement in West Africa: A Snapshot
This paper offers an overview of internal displacement in the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) region—which consists of 15 countries—including displacement resulting from conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations; natura
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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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Climate Extreme: How young people can respond to disasters in a changing world
Is climate change causing more disasters? Why are some people affected by disasters more than others? And what can we do to reduce the impact of disasters? 'Climate Extreme: how young people can respond to disasters in a changing world', is a youth-friend
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Shaping Strategies: Factors and actors in climate change adaptation
This report outlines the findings of a two-year research exploring household vulnerability and resilience in the context of climate variability and change. The key concern of the research was to contribute to the understanding of how households are experi
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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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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Tool 3- Assessment Report and Design Document Review
Assessment Report and Design Document Review: Tool 3 of World Vision's Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit. This tool requires basic knowledge on disaster management and is used by the National Office and Support Office staff in assessing the integration of d