ALM UNDP

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Extreme El Niño flooding events occur on a regular basis in northern Peru, particularly in Piura. Even with advanced warning, poor households struggle to manage a risk as large as that posed by El Niño flooding; they lose their productive assets that defined their livelihoods, and as a result endure unrecoverable economic hardship.

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The African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) is a region-wide network for advocacy, capacity building and peer learning. It was initiated by the United Nations Development Programme Drylands Development Centre (UNDP-DDC) and UN’s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) in 2005 with the aim to promote applied discussion and policy dialogue on key issues linking drought risk and development in Africa.

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This is a newly released flyer on collaboration between UNDP and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) under the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP). The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) was established under the Japan-UNDP Joint Framework for Building Partnership to Address Climate Change in Africa, which was launched at the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) organized in Yokohama, Japan in May 2008.

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The African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) is a region-wide network for advocacy, capacity building and peer learning. It was initiated by the United Nations Development Programme Drylands Development Centre (UNDP-DDC) and UN’s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) in 2005 with the aim to promote applied discussion and policy dialogue on key issues linking drought risk and development in Africa.

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Viet Nam is a low-income country, but has recently made spectacular progress in terms of both economic growth and poverty reduction. The official poverty rate has fallen from 58 percent in 1993, to 19.5 percent in 2004 (VASS 2006). Strong economic growth is likely to continue following recent accession to the World Trade Organisation, with increased international trade and direct foreign investment reinforcing Viet Nam’s progress towards middle-income country status.

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A policy brief on adapting water management to climate change. Written to assist central governments in developed and developing countries, sub-sovereign national bodies, universities and research institutes, community organisations, banks and private investors, aid donors, multilateral financial institutions, UN agencies and other international organisations in water resource adaptation.

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It is a demanding task for any society to cope with historically known variations in rainfall frequency and intensity, river runoffs, and fluctuating sea levels.

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Introduction

Drinking-water and sanitation are foundations of public health and development. Citizens in developed countries take them largely for granted, yet they are carefully regulated by governments. In the developing world they are targets of development policy.

Global climate change has been on the international agenda for over a quarter of a century. The process of climate change has been confi rmed to be ongoing and some further changes are now considered unavoidable.

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Coral reefs are extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially when combined with existing stresses such as land-based sources of pollution, habitat degradation, and overfishing. EcoAdapt has been working on a climate change action plan for Florida's reefs as result of the Reef Resilience conference recommendations in 2008.

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The Asia and Pacific Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD ) and the Asia and Pacific Desk of the Global Mechanism (GM ) of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD ) have been working together to articulate adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change as a means of strengthening sustainability of project interventions and to mobilize supplementary funding from climate change financing mechanisms to scale up pro-poor sustainable land management (SLM) activities.

Viet Nam is highly vulnerable to climate change.