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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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Protecting Women's and Children's Health From a Changing Climate
Climate change increases challenges to women’s and children’s health. There is more likelihood of women and children suffering and dying from problems such as diarrhoea, undernutrition, malaria, and from the harmful effects of extreme weather events, incl
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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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Practitioner Guidelines on the Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Sector-Based Programs
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) are important elements of sustainable development and human security, and if not successfully implemented then disaster and climate change losses will continue to undermine human developmen
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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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The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) launches its landmark report "The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030". The report is intended as an input to the post-2015 debates and aims to make clear that ending extreme poverty will n
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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 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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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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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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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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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