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This activity report builds on analyses and assessments conducted in 2013 to enhance understanding of the initiative’s performance and capacity to improve rural resilience in a transformative way.

This one-pager provides an overview of the the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), a strategic partnership between Oxfam America and WFP. R4 was initiated in 2011 to respond to the challenges faced by food-insecure communities enduring increasingly frequent and intense climate disasters and other shocks.

This technical document describes potential new funding sources for activities to help humanitarians support preparedness for climate risks, in particular extreme weather events. It also suggests messages that can help humanitarian promote the role of preparedness within adaptation funding programs.

This brochure provides an overview of LEAP (Livelihoods, Early Assessment and Protection), an early warning-early response tool developed by the Ethiopian government in collaboration with WFP which triggers contingency funding ahead of severe droughts or floods, to provide food or cash to the people projected to need early assistance.

This handbook will guide current and future WFP programming. It will help professionals understand the broader impacts of limited access to cooking fuel and how the Safe Access to Firewood and alternative Energy (SAFE) initiative can mitigate them.

The document sets priorities for enhanced effectiveness in WFP’s interventions in support of the most vulnerable and food insecure.

This visual aid developed by WFP and the Met Office Hadley Centre depicts a map of malnutrition and climate vulnerability in Africa.

This fact sheet proposes ten actions that health pofessionals can take to protect health from climate change.

Listing new challenges facing the humanitarian community, this technical document emphasizes that “climate change, population growth, rapid and unplanned urbanization, and food and water insecurity are leaving more and more people at risk of crisis.” The report explains that today’s major humanitarian crises are protracted or recurrent due to climate, conflict and price shocks that affect the most vulnerable populations.

This leaflet developed by WHO, United Kingdom Health Protection Agency and partners provides an overview of the effect of climate risks on public health in terms of malnutrition, diarrhoeal disease, trauma and air pollution.

Humanitarian needs are rising as the rising world population faces increased risks from climate change, environmental degradation and the consequences of conflict; and much more needs to be done to reduce the impact of disasters before they happen, and to build local capacity. This analytical report provides timely recommendations as the world looks towards the post-2015 framework for development and disaster risk reduction, alongside the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit.

This activity report on ICT and Climate Change presents the conclusions of a dedicated ITU-T Focus Group.

This analytical report provides an overview of the use of radiocommunication systems to monitor the various manifestations of climate change and their impact as well as the application of ICTs and radiocommunications as a solution to contribute to a global reduction in energy consumption.

The world needs to adopt a more integrated and comprehensive approach to development – and in this, ICT and broadband can make a major contribution. This analytical report examines the role broadband and ICT can play as transformative solutions to achieving sustainable development for all.

This document provides an overview of ITU’s work on Smart Sustainable Cities.

Under the theme of ‘Bridging Gaps: Are You?’ this publication outlines a range of do-able actions, from scaling up and accelerating the deployment of renewable and clean energies to investing in sustainable transportation systems and energy efficient buildings. It also spotlights how UNEP is supporting the development, transfer and deployment of clean technologies, and facilitates countries’ access to climate finance, contributing to build a sustainable future.

This book, inspired by the findings of GEO 5, highlights the efforts of young people to protect the Earth’s atmosphere, land, water and biological diversity.

This document provides an overview of ITU’s work on the Environmentally Sound Management of E-Waste.

The PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change provides a framework for considering the full range of approaches to VIA assessment. It aims to help professionals such as researchers, policymakers, sectoral planners and consultants to select the appropriate methods and tools for their particular context and adaptation situation.

In support of the knowledge sharing and capacity building agenda of the Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU-D Study Groups support countries in achieving their development goals. Study Group 2 was entrusted by WTDC-10 with the study of nine Questions in the areas of information and communication infrastructure and technology development, emergency telecommunications and climate-change adaptation.