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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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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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Country Risk Reduction Profile: Disaster Risk Reduction in Myanmar
There are a number of hazards faced by Myanmar, including cyclones, floods and whirlwinds that cause a high level of damage, particularly to homes and shelters. Save the Children's approach to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Myanmar took the form of: Com
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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
A press release about the launch of the child-friendly version of the IPCC’s Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The child-friendly SREX report, produced by Plan Australia, is a
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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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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Annex A- Sample of Hazard Maps
World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Annex A- Sample of Hazard Maps. What is a Hazard Map? The purpose of a hazard map is to illustrate the possible dangers of an area and to make them known to residents. Hazard maps cannot stop a disastrous phen
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Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and rights are threatened by disasters and climate chan
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Country Risk Reduction Profile: Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world with a regular cycle of floods, storms and cyclones affecting millions of people, particularly children. Save the Children's child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) initiatives in Ban
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Leaving home: Voices of children on the move
Children have become an important part of large-scale population movements both within and between countries and are likely to be increasingly affected in the next decades as a result of globalisation, socio-economic shifts and climate change. Yet, in deb
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Community champions: Adapting to Climate Challenges
This publication contains abstracts from papers presented at the fourth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change which was held on 21-27 February 2010 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Conference was structured around plenary
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Hear Our Voices We Entreat!
In this report children and young people provide opinions on their lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The report was created for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and is relevant to policy makers and anyone interested in the rights of ch
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Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia
In 2009, research with children, adults, and policymakers took place in drought and flood prone regions of Kenya and Cambodia to see how children saw their rights being linked to changing climatic conditions. This report presents evidence of children’s ca
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Living with disasters and changing climate
Living with disasters and changing climate is about children, disaster risk reduction, and climate change. Based on Save the Children’s experience in child-centred disaster risk reduction in Southeast Asia, this book is a collection of children’s stories