Philippine Red Cross
The PRC is a major humanitarian organization based in Mandaluyong, Philippines.
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University has a proud tradition of leadership in education, research, service, and patient care around the globe, with research and training programs on every continent, more than 40
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) is a world-leading institution in health research, training and services.
Emerging Evidence on Climate Change and Health in Africa
This report presents evidence on the effects of climate change on the health sector in Africa, including threats to health and development investments, and opportunities to achieve health targets.
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA's primary purpose as a public research university is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society.
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public research university in Haifa, Israel.
Bio-toilets: Transforming Indian Sanitation
This article describes how a social enterprise is helping to eradicate the malaise of open defecation by providing eco-friendly bio-toilets (or bioloos).
Strenghening Adaptation to Climate-Sensitive Malaria in Kenya
The project will promote active collaboration among six key stakeholder groups and aims to strengthen community based adaptation to climate-sensitive malaria, Kenya.
Health Risk Reduction
Among vector-borne diseases that are sensitive to climatic and weather conditions, dengue fever is being seen as one of the increasing health problems in many urban and rural communities...
Draft Principles and Guidelines for EbA
Ecosystem-based approaches to reduce social vulnerability are a promising option for sustainable and efficient adaptation to climate change. Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) is part of overall adaptation, and takes into account multiple social, economic and cultural co-benefits for local communities. EbA encompasses adaptation policies and measures that take into account the role of ecosystem services in reducing societal vulnerability, through multi-sectoral and multi-level approaches.
Planning and costing agriculture's adaptation in Rwanda
This study is one of 5 country studies (Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Rwanda and Tanzania) exploring planning and costing agriculture's adaptation to climate...
Catholic Relief Services
CRS is a developmental and relief wing of the catholic Bishops of the United states of America.
Social Protection: Health
Climate-related diseases are responsible for a large proportion of the global burden of disease. Human health is therefore not surprising predicted to be adversely affected by projected climate...
World Health Organization
World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.
Bolivia: Impacts by Sector
This page looks at the impacts of climate change on different sectors in Bolivia. It forms part of a larger report produced by Tahia Devisscher and Ben Smith in November...
Key findings from Mozambique NCAP Project
The majority of people involved in this study are chronically vulnerable to a range of stresses including climate risk. 70% of households are employed in the informal market and therefore have...
Bolivia NCAP project: Vallegrande findings
Map showing Vallegrande area
The physiology of the study area comprises different altitudinal ecological zones: the head of valleys or high dry valleys located...
Adapting coffee farming
Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative is an organisation of smallholder coffee farmers who produce washed Arabica for the speciality coffee market and live and work on the steep slopes of Mount...
Small-holder Coffee Cash Cropping System
The ability of the Rwandan coffee sector to compete in the global market by producing the highest quality of coffee is threatened by climate change at a number of stages along the supply...
Water Scarcity in Mountain Regions
Climate change effects can also provoke an emergence and expansion of vector transmissible diseases such as Malaria and Chagas. To evaluate this situation and find possible preventive measures, two vulnerable semi-arid mountainous regions in Bolivia were selected as case studies: the Lake Titicaca region and the region of Vallegrande.
