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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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Risk Reduction and Adaptation for East Africa: A step by step approach with and for children
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The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030
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Enough food for everyone: The need of UK action on global hunger
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Press Release- Child-friendly version of the IPCC’s Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). A New learning tool to arm children on disaster preparedness
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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Tool 4- Risk Monitoring & Evaluation
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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Tool 3- Assessment Report and Design Document Review
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Children's Charter- an action plan for disaster risk reduction for children by children
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Climate Change, Environment and Migration in the Sahel: Selected Issues with a Focus on Senegal and Mali
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Country Risk Reduction Profiles: Disaster Risk Reduction in Vietnam
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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Annex C- Sector-based samples
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Migration and Disaster-Induced Displacement: European Policy, Practice, and Perspective
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Criterios para la priorización de acciones de reducción del riesgo de desastres (RRD) a nivel nacional en América Latina y el Caribe
The purpose of this document is to develop a set of criteria for prioritizing actions for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), along with methodological guide for use in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is intended that these criteria contribute to national