Valuing the Benefits, Costs and Impacts of EbA Measures
This sourcebook assists in building awareness, knowledge and capacity about why, how and in which contexts EbA valuation can be used to inform, guide and influence adaptation decision-making.
VRC Case Study
This chapter summarizes the structure and utility of Vulnerability Reduction Credits and shows how VRCs are created and integrated into adaptations to heterogeneous climate risks.
Financial services for resilience: how to assess the impacts?
This report explores the implementation of innovative methodologies to measure the effect of financial services on people's resilience in Niger.
Disasters and national economic resilience
This paper aims to provide an analysis of economic resilience at the national level, presenting broad changes in resilience to climate extremes over a 42 year period.
Integrating disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change
This brief describes a climate-integrated Community-based Early Warning System implemented by the Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP) in Dakoro, Niger.
How gender and adaptive capacity affect resilience
Policy and programme recommendations on gender dynamics and the role of CBA in increasing adaptive capacity and promoting gender equality based on ALP’s practical experiences in Africa since 2010.
Flood vulnerability and risk in the Bénin Niger River valley
In recent decades, flood disaster is threatening human security in West Africa, particularly in the Niger River basin.The study addresses flood vulnerability and risk in the Bénin Niger River Valley
Adaptation Planning with Communities
This brief describes ALP’s community adaptation action planning (CAAP) process, which has proven to be a key approach for building motivation and capacity for action on CBA among communities
ALP Adaptation Strategies Compendium
This compendium presents the range of different adaptation strategies supported by ALP in communities across the four countries where the programme is working.
Inspiring action post COP21: the Adaptation Learning Programme
The UNFCCC Paris Agreement on climate change represents a historic commitment to tackling a global challenge and to ensure greener, climate resilient growth into the future...
Centre Régional d Enseignement Spécialisé en Agriculture
Sous la tutelle de l'Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey (UAM), le CRESA a pour objectif de former les étudiants ayant au moins une Maîtrise, les employés des organismes privés ou de l'Etat ayant u
Community adaptation action planning in Niger
This project example outlines the participatory process through which community-based adaptation action planning (CAAP) was carried out with 20 pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in the...
Impacts of sea-level rise in Africa
View of Lagos. Image ©http://coastalcare.org/
Impacts of sea-level rise in NigeriaNigeria’s coast is 850km long and comprises (from west to east) a barrier-lagoon...
Toward Resilience
Toward Resilience is a small, user- friendly guide aimed at helping field practitioners implement effective, sustainable, and integrated DRR and CCA programming.
Centre de Prestation la maison des riziculteurs
Appui-conseil aux organisations productrices de Riz au Niger
Supporting Adaptation of Productive Practices
The Rombou Rural Commune in central Niger, is faced with frequent droughts as rainfall levels have steadily declined since the late 1960s, resulting in an extended dry season that now...
Food insecurity in Niger
Summary
Being aware of the present and future challenges posed by climate change on their socio economic development, local communities did not wait for external help to develop...
West Africa Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use
WASCAL is an initiative of the German government to establish a center of competence on climate change and adapted land use in West Africa (for the time being, the countries involved are: Benin, Bu
Direction Générale des Ressources en Eau
La Direction Générale des Ressources en Eau du BURKINA FASO est coiffée par le Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Hydraulique.
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger
Participe à l'élaboration des politiques nationales de recherches agronomiques.
Formation Afrique de l'Ouest 2010-2011
MENA region
Introduction2010-2011 une formation international sur les changements climatiques a été organisé par le SMHI/SWECO/SEI. La formation a rassemblé 27 particpiants venant de 7...
Senegal
Map of Senegal, source CIA factbook 2009
Most of Senegal has a typically tropical climate, but the northern regions lie in the Sahel. Senegal has a varied underlying...
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