Community Perspectives on Climate Resilience
In 2022, Ground Truth Solutions partnered with IIED and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), to survey the opinions of more than 2,300 citizen in three areas of Bangladesh particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The aim was to understand how they perceive the quality and impact of adaptation programmes in their communities, and the extent to which they feel their views, opinions and experiences are considered in decision-making.
Climate risk integration
Learn about why system transformation of the development sector is needed to ensure development progress continues against the backdrop of increasing climate change impacts in this short blog.
Using WASH Flows in the in the development of the Tupiza watershed plan, Bolivia
Learn about how WASH Flows was used in Tupiza watershed, Bolivia; an area with limited access to water and sanitation services. Explore how the outputs allowed an evaluation the impact of potential WASH solutions.
Enhancing Community Flood Resilience in Lusaka's Unplanned Settlements: A Case Study of Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives
Learn how different stakeholders in Lusaka define flood resilience, in terms of a desirable state to be achieved, and how community flood resilience in unplanned settlements could be enhanced according to different stakeholders.
COPE Books for Children: Earthquakes
Learn about disaster risk reduction and earthquakes with this illustrated book for children by COPE.
COPE Books for Children: Floods
Learn about disaster risk reduction and floods with this illustrated book for children from COPE.
COPE Books for Children: Cyclones
Learn about disaster risk reduction and cyclones with this illustrated book for children from COPE. This time, the squad travels to Australia.
COPE Books for Children: COVID-19
Learn about disaster risk reduction, COVID and how the virus is spread in this illustrated book for children from COPE
A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings and Communities
This guide demonstrates how buildings and community spaces can be built to increase resilience to climate change, especially in developing countries where structures are largely self-built.
Ecosystem-based adaptation for resilience in India
This report shows how local ecosystem based adaptation (EbA) approaches make farming systems more resilient in India and proposes six key messages for scaling up EbA.
Community-Based Waste Recycling System in Siargao Island
The people of Del Carmen developed a project that will establish a solid waste management system to strengthen community climate resilience.
Huairou Commission
Huairou Commission is a women-led social movement of grassroots groups from poor urban, rural and indigenous communities in 45+ countries who collectively work for transformative change that improv
Planning and Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India
Climate change adaptation project implementation covering lessons on capacity building, demonstration, mainstreaming, and policy formulation for adaptation in India.
Village Development Plan Helps People in Sumberagung to Fight Landslides and Drought
This case study describes how mainstreaming climate resilience in village planning and budgeting has increased the resilience of the people in Sumberagung to landslides and drought.
A youth´s call for climate action
“Young voices” is an interactive and multimedia project: they produced a Call for action – young people's perspective on climate change video presented at the ECCA 2019.
Seeing beyond climate impacts in rural Nepal
This paper considers a reframing of adaptation research towards the dynamics of household reproduction and changing rural political economies in order to reveal the challenges rural populations face.
Prepare Children to Deal with Disaster and Climate Impacts
Children’s knowledge in climate and disaster field is a necessity. A large number of child victims during disasters shows the urgency of capacity building for children in resilience.
Oxfam India
By 2020, Oxfam India will work towards reducing inequality and injustice in India by working with alliances of poor and marginalized people, especially women, so that they are able to realize their
Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework
This paper describes the emBRACE framework of community resilience - a heuristic analytical tool for understanding, explaining and measuring community resilience to natural hazards.
Risk Perception and Community Networks for Community Resilience
This article looks at the role that perception, local knowledge, and social networks play in community resilience in the alpine community of Badia, which experienced a large landslide in 2012.
Indicators for community resilience
This working paper shows how qualitative and quantitative indicators for assessing the resilience of communities can be identified, developed and synthesised.
Wicked problems – resilience, adaptation and complexity
Deciding upon policy interventions to support community resilience presents us with both a ‘wicked’ and a
‘messy’ problem and calls for ‘clumsy’ policy solutions and interventions.
FAOC
Foundation for AIDS Orphaned Children (FAOC) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) operating in Isingiro District, southwestern Uganda. It was founded and registered in 1994.
Managing Complex Systems
This paper shows how 'structured output' methods can ‘abstract’ important issues and concepts and feed into planning and policy outputs.
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