Recovery with Dignity
The Recovery with Dignity project aims to understand the experiences of recovery in post-disaster situations across three states in India – Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala.
Careless Development Models in Yolanda's Wake
Six years after Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) devastated Tacloban city in the Philippines the struggle for recovery continues. A call for transformation in the current development and recovery model.
ProSus #1: Building Leadership for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia
The first issue of ProSus Magazine explores ideas and solutions for disaster risk reduction in Asia, highlighting research from the Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship program.
A typology framework for trade-offs in development and disaster risk reduction:Typhoon Haiyan recovery in Tacloban, Philippines
What are the trade-offs in the pursuit of development and DRR and what is their role in transformation? This article provides a typology of trade-off dimensions applied in a SE Asian case study.
Resilience and Development Practice in Vanuatu
This research has identified key issues related to resilience following Tropical Cyclone Pam that contribute to community-based adaptation and resilience discourse and action across scales.
Climate data and projections: supporting evidence-based decision-making in the Caribbean
This report provides an overview of climate data and information available from the CARibbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG) data portal and how they can be used to support decision-making.
Life in Hebbal Settlement, Bangalore, India
The ASSAR urban research team at IIHS created a video from drawings at sites in the informal settlement of Hebbal where many interstate migrant waste pickers from West Bengal live.
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CC&E Nexus Brief: The El Niño Phenomenon and Related Impacts 
This brief focuses on El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon and the 2015/2016 El Niño event in particular, the environmental and societal impacts and effects of which will extend well into 2017.
Climate information and services in BRACED countries
This paper summarises and assesses existing weather and climate information for BRACED programme countries, including existing climate services and problems in the use of the available information.
Climate change and flood risk – Challenges for Jamaican communities
This case study describes the potential medium- and long-term impacts of climate variability and change on flood risk for selected study areas in Jamaica.
Climate extremes and resilient poverty reduction
Three ODI case studies – on drought risk in Mali, heatwaves in India and typhoons in Philippines – illustrate the relationship between climate change, climate extremes, disasters and poverty impacts
Reducing floods and land slides in the Agusan Delta, Philippines
This animation shows an integrated disaster risk reduction approach in which care for people and nature goes hand in hand.
Climate Adaptation In Bangladesh
How much is spent on country level adaptation projects? What types of projects are funded? And where are these projects?
World Disasters Report
Culture and risk
This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters ...
Mangroves for coastal defence
This practical guidebook summarises the findings of three technical reviews on mangroves and provides practical management recommendations to coastal zone managers and policymakers.
Constructing a storm-proof fishing equipment storage facility
Srirampuram and Ramudupalli Palem's shed to protect fishing equipment
Srirampuram is a small village in Andhra Pradesh located 1.5 km from the sea of the Bay of...
Preventing flooding through a coastal bund
Perumalpettai's coastal bund for flood protection
Located along the low-lying coastal area of the Bay of Bengal in Tamil Nadu, only 500 m from the coast, the village...
Flood protection through a backwater river bund
Nadupalayam's backwater river bund protecting people and land
The village of Nadupalayam is located 2 km from the shore of the Bay of Bengal...
Oxfam Southern Africa Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (Zambia)
Southern Zambia
Project description SEI was commissioned by Oxfam Great Britain’s Southern Africa Regional Centre to advise on climate adaptation and disaster risk...
Community-Based Adaptation in El Salvador
This work summarizes research done on capacities and vulnerabilities of two Salvadorian campesino communities prone to annual flooding.
Bangladesh NCAP Project
Introduction
The coastline of Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to the sea level rise in the Bay of Bengal on account of the low-lying deltaic environment. The tropical cyclones,...
Annexes to Latin America Regional Climate Screening
One of the climatic events that may become more frequent and intense due to climate change is El Niño. Over the last 3...
Pacific Islands
In January 2004, Tropical Cyclone Heta slammed into the Pacific Island nation of Niue, causing mass destruction and nearly costing the state its...
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Vietnam (CACC)
Location of communes who benefited from the CACC Project
Adaptation contextFollowing the 1999 flood, many international donors started assisting the Vietnam...
