Abstract People living in places affected by fragility and/or violent conflict are among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change. In these situations, a natural hazard – such as a flood or...
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Barriers to addressing climate change-related losses and damages in low- and middle-income countries: a Rapid Evidence Assessment
By Yue Cao, Courtney Lindsay, Emily Wilkinson and Vikrant Panwar Since 2015, the increasing number and intensifying nature of the impacts of climate change worldwide and the lack of progress on both...
Measuring adaptation and resilience: an annotated bibliography
By Courtney Lindsey Climate change is happening, and it is having profound impacts on social and ecological systems. Governments and communities across the world, particularly those in developing...
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Advancing gender equality and climate action: A practical guide to setting targets and monitoring progress
1. Introduction There is a gender gap in development Worldwide, the average of women’s human development is behind men’s by 5.7% as a whole, based on: ● the ability to lead a long and healthy life,...
Anticipatory Action & Disaster Risk Finance - Guiding the setting of humanitarian targets
This paper intends to provide a clearer framework for understanding what can be anticipated, and to what degree. The analysis in this report shows that there are significant avenues within the...
Ethiopia + 10 more
Climate risk report for the East Africa region
Authors: Katy Richardson, Roger Calow, Florence Pichon, Stacey New, and Rebecca Osborne Executive summary This report highlights the headline risks to consider in climate resilient development...
Mali + 2 more
Synthesis report: Exploring the conflict blind spots in climate adaptation finance
This report examines whether climate adaptation programmes have been conflict-sensitive in fragile and conflict-affected regions, and the barriers to increasing adaptation finance to these contexts. ...
Malawi + 3 more
Why invest in resilience?
Key Findings Costs of extreme weather events (droughts and floods) in Malawi are rising and undermine development gains. Climate change means that the frequency and intensity of extreme weather...
Syria + 4 more
Quantifying climate change relevant humanitarian programming and spending across five highly disaster vulnerable countries
By Bryan T. McCann, Jenna M. Davis, Devin Osborne, Courtney Durham, Madeleine O’Brien, and Nathaniel A. Raymond Climate change is increasing the severity and frequency of natural hazards and...
Kenya + 1 more
Working paper - Building resilience for all: intersectional approaches for reducing vulnerability to natural hazards in Nepal and Kenya
Research reports and studies May 2019 Emma Lovell, John Twigg and Getrude Lung'ahi Intersectional approaches recognise that ‘people have different identities, needs, priorities and capacities which...
Intersectional approaches to vulnerability reduction and resilience-building
Daniel Chaplin, John Twigg and Emma Lovell Intersectional approaches recognise that people will have different identities, needs, priorities and capacities which are not static, and will shift and...
Double vulnerability: the humanitarian implications of intersecting climate and conflict risk
Katie Peters, Leigh Mayhew, Hugo Slim, Maarten van Aalst and Julie Arrighi This paper summarises current knowledge and analysis of the interactions between climate and conflict to set the scene for...
Moving towards a growing global discourse on transboundary adaptation
Rebecca Nadin and Erin Roberts The scientific consensus is clear that climate change will alter the frequency, intensity, duration, timing and location of extreme weather and slow-onset events. It...
ODI Resilience Scan: July - September 2017
This Resilience Scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2017. It comprises an 'expert view' on coastal resilience, an analysis of Twitter...
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Climate change, migration and displacement: the need for a risk-informed and coherent approach
Research reports and studies | November 2017 | Sarah Opitz Stapleton, Rebecca Nadin, Charlene Watson and Jan Kellett This report presents an overview of the current evidence base on the complex...
ODI Resilience Scan: April - June 2017
This Resilience Scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the second quarter of 2017. It comprises an 'expert view' on some of the emerging issues for transboundary...
Climate-induced migration and displacement: closing the policy gap
Emily Wilkinson, Amy Kirbyshire, Leigh Mayhew, Pandora Batra and Andrea Milan Key Messages Climate-induced migration and displacement is falling between the policy gaps. Existing international...
ODI Resilience Scan: January - March 2016
Authors: Thomas Tanner, Emma Lovell, Florence Pichon, Aditya Bahadur and Hani Morsi. Outline: The January-March 2016 quarter’s scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience. A number...
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Gender and resilience: from theory to practice - Working paper
Working and discussion papers January 2016 Virginie Le Masson, Maggie Opondo, Ubah Abdi, Patricia Nangiro, Melanie Hilton, Yee Mon Maung, Sophie Rigg, Emma Lovell and Florence Pichon One year into...
Financiamiento para la reducción del riesgo de desastres: 10 cosas que debe saber
Introducción El debate actual acerca del financiamiento para la reducción del riesgo de desastres (RRD) sigue siendo insatisfactorio. La poca documentación existente sobre el financiamiento de la RRD...