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This report presents the partnerships UNIDO has made over the years. In planning how to turn ideas into practical programmes, UNIDO needed to take account of new trends in industry and business itself. It was clear that globalization of production, trade, technology and finance had made manufacturing more international, making it harder for developing countries to compete. Thus engaging in partnerships is critical.

This compedium provides a compilation of the world’s baseline data on small hydropower from 152 countries, territories and regions.

This analytical report includes a study commissioned by the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit. This is the first stage of a larger project that seeks to examine the current state of integration of environmental considerations in humanitarian operations and to recommend collective action to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and sustainability of humanitarian action. It examines some of the achievements to date and proposes how the future agenda might be defined.

This technical document provides methodological and organizational guidance to countries interested in taking a strategic approach to climate change learning and skills development. In particular, it lays out the process of developing a National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development – or short “National Climate Change Learning Strategy” – through cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration, and with engagement of national education and training institutions.

This analytical report summarises some of the key highlights and achievements of the UN-REDD Programme over its first five years, building on its efforts from supporting nine initial countries to 51 partner countries.  The UN-REDD Programme support has ranged from capacity building, to designing national strategies to developing financing approaches and institutional arrangements needed to monitor and verify reductions in deforestation and degradation more effectively.

This activity report presents the results of the Climate Summit Forests Pavilion, a symposium of over 400 key actors in the forests space, held in conjunction with the UN Climate Summit, 23 September 2014.

This analytical report highlights that the effect of climate change is already straining the disaster relief system and the threat of extreme climatic events in the future is likely to generate higher demands for disaster assistance that will prove more costly. Tackling the threat of climate change in risk-prone areas will need a system-wide shift in attention to strengthen disaster risk management, risk reduction and preparedness for an effective response.

This report presents the results of the formal Forests action area plenary at the Secretary-General’s Climate Summit, 23 September 2014.

This policy document aims to ensure that the health sector works with partners in the environment and other related communities to engage in the overall NAP process at the national level, identify national strategic goals for building health resilience to climate change, and develop a national plan with prioritized activities to achieve these goals.

The activity report presents the conclusions of the Health and Disaster Risk Reduction within the Global Framework for Climate Services meeting. This meeting was organized by WMO and WHO, the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and UNISDR, to extend partnerships and to develop recommendations for the implementation of the GFCS-UIP to address the needs of these communities of practice.

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.