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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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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Annex D- Worksheet Templates
World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Annex D- Worksheet Templates. Annex D of the World Vision Disaster Reduction Toolkit includes samples of worksheet templates for Tool 1 [Initial Risk Assessment]; Tool 2 [Risk Assessment for Design Phase]; Too
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Land, livelihoods and identities: Inter-community conflicts in East Africa
In resource-scarce East Africa, minority groups face major challenges over the control of and access to land and natural resources. Minorities find themselves competing with other communities, with the state, and with corporate interests for control of re
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Climate change starter's guidebook: an issues guide for education planners and practitioners- 2011
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have released a publication titled “Climate Change Starter’s Guidebook,” which is intended to serve as a starting point for mainstreaming climate cha
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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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Building Community Resilience to Climate Change: Testing the Adaptation Coalition Framework in Latin America
This paper presents the Adaptation Coalition Framework (ACF), the goal of which is to address challenges presented by climate change that many other current climate adaptation models and sustainable development frameworks do not completely address. It ind
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Children and Disasters: Understanding Impact and Enabling Agency
From a child rights perspective disaster impacts affect not only a child's basic right to survival and development, but cut across their right to participate and for decisions to be made in their best interests. Child-centred approaches recognise the role
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Displacement due to natural hazard-induced disasters. Global estimates for 2009 and 2010
Over 42 million people across the world were forced to flee due to disasters triggered by sudden-onset natural hazards in 2010, according to this study by IDMC. In 2009, 17 million people were displaced by such disasters, and 36 million in 2008. It is hop
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Weathering the storm: Adolescent girls and climate change
This report calls for better integration of adolescent girls' needs in climate change adaptation and disaster risk management policies and programmes, based on interviews with girls involved in Plan's programmes in Ethiopia and Bangladesh. The impacts of
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Participatory natural resource management with Somali pastoral & agropastoral communities: a lasting community led response to climate change
This technical brief examines the experiences of Save the Children UK (SC UK) working with communities in two districts of Shinile Zone on participatory natural resource management (NRM), and shows how this approach can contribute to disaster risk reducti
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A Charter to End Extreme Hunger
This charter sets out five key actions that governments of rich and poor countries should take to stop widespread starvation as a result of drought, high food prices and conflict. It includes ensuring that disaster risk reduction and climate change adapta
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Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change. The role of development interventions
This paper is based on an analysis of three country studies conducted by national research teams in eight research sites in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique for ACCRA. It describes the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed for this project, its
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Aligning Regional and Global Disaster Risk Reduction Agendas. Summary of key regional political commitments & disaster risk reduction priorities
This summary reports on the agendas and priorities for disaster risk reduction based on the outcomes of regional conferences and forums that took place worldwide in 2010 and 2011. These outcomes were also considered for the agenda of the third session of