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Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Addressing vulnerabilities to glacier melt impacts The goal of the study reported here is to provide approaches to glacier melt, within the context of climate change, based on state-of-the-art knowledge, to USAID Missions in three topic areas: (1) science related to glacier melt and high-altitude hydrology, (2) the impacts of changes near and far in space and time, and (3) the organizations and activities... Published in 2010, by |
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Environmental Emergencies. Learning from multilateral response to disasters This publication, which highlights success stories and lessons learned, is aimed at a wide audience. The intent is to further raise awareness of the devastation that an environmental emergency can cause, and to promote advocacy and action in response. It also aims to highlight the strong need to integrate humanitarian and environmental action. Published in 2010, by |
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Environmental health in emergencies and disasters This practical guide deals not only with emergency response, but also with measures designed to reduce the impact of disasters on environmental health infrastructure, such as water supply and sanitation facilities. It also aims to strengthen the ability of people to withstand the disruption of their accustomed infrastructure and systems for environmental... Published in 2002, by |
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FAO’s Role & Effectiveness in Emergencies Workshop Handbook Chapter 1: Contingency planning Chapter 2: Early warning and coordination mechanisms Chapter 3: Needs assessment Chapter 4: Response analysis, selection and planning Chapter 5: Programme design and implementation Chapter 6: Communication Published in 2007, by |
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Food and Nutrition Handbook This handbook is aimed at WFP staff at all levels who are involved with the delivery of food assistance to WFP beneficiaries. It should serve as both a reference and training manual, providing the staff with - better understanding of food an nutrition issues as they relate to WFP - a practical tool to tackle a number of basic nutrition related tasks,... Published in 2005, by |
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Food security and livelihood assessments This book is intended to provide practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement a Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) assessment. Published in 2010, by |
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Handbook for defining and setting up a food security information and early warning system This handbook describes the Food Security and Early Warning Information System (FSIEWS) method, seeking to enhance the ability of governmental and non-governmental actors to know who, where and why people are affected or threatened by food insecurity. The handbook is addressed to national technical managers, central and decentralized, as well as to their... Published in 2001, by |
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Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification: Technical Manual Version 1 This manual provides technical guidance to the use of IPC among FSAU analysts and technical partners, and will hopefully contribute to on-going global efforts to standardize core elements of humanitarian analysis and response (e.g., the SMART, Benchmarking, Needs Analysis Framework, Humanitarian Tracking Service, and Sphere Project). Published in 2006, by |
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Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis report The TEC's Synthesis Report represents the culmination of over a year's work by TEC member agencies. It examines the successes and failures as well as the constraints within which the response occurred between the first 8 and 11 months of the response. It does this by distilling the findings and learning from over 140 additional reports, including many TEC... Published in 2006, by |
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Markets and emergency needs assessments. Cairo workshop Proceedings of workshop for managers and field staff Published in 2006, by |
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Micro-level Practices to Adapt to Climate Change for African Small-scale Farmers This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change that are available to small-scale farmers in Africa. The analysis is based on a review of 17 studies about practices that boost small-scale farmers’ resilience or reduce their vulnerability to observed or expected changes in climate; it includes data from more than 16 countries in... Published in 2010, by |
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NUTRITION - A Guide to Data Collection, Analysis, Interpretation and Use Manual aimed at mid-level managers in all sectors who would like to better understand nutrition information and its use. The manual sets out all the steps involved in nutrition data collection and analysis including practical guidance for use by survey enumerators, health facility workers and other field workers. Additional materials have also been prepared... Published in 2005, by |
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PreventionWeb - Serving the information needs of the disaster reduction community PreventionWeb is a platform that serves the information needs of the disaster risk reduction community, including the development of information exchange tools to facilitate collaboration. Published in 2010, by |
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Protecting Health from Climate Change: Connecting Science Policy and People A new report from WHO presents an overview of the science of the links between climate change and human health. It provides an update of the evidence on health risks caused by climate change, describes which populations are most vulnerable, and outlines the actions that will be necessary to protect health from climate change. Published in 2009, by |
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Public Health Guide for Emergencies Building emergency relief skills requires not only technical health training but also education in emergency preparedness and response. This guide is designed to serve as a reference for such training. Published in 2008, by |
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SCN News No 38: Climate Change: food and nutrition security implications This edition of the SCN News is rightfully dedicated to climate change and its implications on food and nutrition. It is hoped to be thought provoking, showing you how climate change impacts on nutrition. The topic has been approached from very different angles: impacts on food security (in general, in the Asia-Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa),... Published in 2010, by |
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The meaning and measurement of acute malnutrition in emergencies: a primer for decision-makers - Network Paper Number 56 Technical paper aimed at non-technical humanitarian actors, especially decision-makers, understand, interpret and use nutritional data by looking at how it is collected, analysed and used. It also looks at how technical issues are linked to pragmatic institutional constraints. Published in 2006, by |
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The state of the world population 2009 How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change? Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to adapt to a warming world? And could better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men make a difference in the fight against climate change? Find the answers in the State of World Population 2009. Published in 2009, by |