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Protected areas have become part and parcel of global debates on such issues as security, human rights, genetic resources, foods and medicines, access to land and resources, social and cultural values and human heritage. Yet, while there are growing efforts to secure these areas, protected areas are also experiencing direct and indirect threats to their very survival. What must be done to...
A team of Oxfam researchers travelled to the two provinces of Ben Tre and Quang Tri in May 2008 to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how they might deal with this in the future.
Main findings from the report:
- Poor men and women in Ben Tre and Quang Tri are already experiencing the...
Climate change does not happen in isolation. It interacts with existing problems and challenges – notably deforestation, soil degradation, declining food security, declining fish stocks – and makes them worse. Adaptation has to start with adaptation to the current climate.
The people of Uganda are highly susceptible to present climatic variations and shocks. Building...
The Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (KBR) is one of the latest additions to the protected areas network in the Indian Himalayan Region. Located in the picturesque state of Sikkim in the eastern Indian Himalayan Region with snow-clad mountain peaks, numerous glaciers, a snow- and glacier-fed stream network and high-altitude lakes, this biosphere reserve (BR) is named after the world’s...
Climate change scenarios predict impacts in Bolivia that include longer dry seasons and more frequent storms. Can the local population cope with these changes? How resilient are the social systems and local ecosystems? A case study prepared by Intercooperation (IC) for "Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation," an IC/IISD/IUCN/SEI project on climate Change, investigated how Swiss development...
A great deal has been done in recent decades to improve emergency relief following natural disasters. Integrated disaster reduction, in addition to relief, primarily involves prevention of natural disasters. For SDC, prevention is an important component in both development cooperation and humanitarian aid It is a long-term activity that demands coordinated cooperation among various actors. In...
This training manual defines the concepts of gender, presents the CGISP gender strategy, clarifying gender analysis and why it is used in CSISP, and looks to planning for change.
This is the first in a series of three papers that examines the financing of services in developing countries. This paper focuses on external assistance in the form of aid and debt cancellation. The other papers in the series will focus on internal revenues; first, receipts from taxation and then receipts from extractive industries.
Without health and education, poor women and men...
Classrooms with teachers; clinics with nurses; running taps and working toilets: for millions of people across developing countries these things are a distant dream. And yet it is these vital public services – health, education, water and sanitation – that are the key to transforming the lives of people living in poverty.
Building strong public services for all is...
Half of the children in Afghanistan still do not go to school despite a 500 per cent increase in enrolments in the last six years. With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of national regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child – boy and girl. However, there remain many obstacles to achieving this dream.
Household contributions to education are steep...
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