Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Natural Disasters
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Assessing the evidence: migration, environment and climate change in Namibia
This report contextualizes the migration-environment nexus in Namibia, mapping an overview of the country's current situation and analyzing existing policy frameworks in order to provide reccomendations
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Making growth work for the poor: a poverty assessment for the Philippines
The report emphasizes the importance of breaking the cycle of inequitable investment in human capital and lack of well-paying job opportunities that trap the poor in poverty, generation after generation.
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How to manage the fiscal costs of natural disasters
This how-to note focuses on the management of the fiscal costs associated with natural disaster risks. Unlike other types of fiscal risks (for example, unexpected macroeconomic changes or materialization
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Resilience in Zambia: Impact evaluation of the 'Citizen Participation in Adaptation to Climate Change' project
Oxfam GB’s Global Performance Framework is part of the organization’s effort to better understand and communicate its effectiveness, as well as to enhance learning for staff and partners. Under this Framework,
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Making sense of the drought situation in Cape Town
Cape Town has come dangerously close to running out of water after 3 years of persistent drought. Tight water usage restrictions have been successful in stalling 'day zero' - when the city's taps will
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Kenya: Cabinet approves the NDEF 2018 regulations
The Cabinet has approved the Public Finance Management (National Drought Emergency Fund) Regulations, 2018. The Regulations are meant to guide the operations of the National Drought Emergency Fund which
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Three persons killed, 20 houses destroyed as flood ravages Gombe
Flooding caused by heavy rainfall has killed three people and destroyed 20 houses in Gombe State. Eight other persons were injured from the effects of the rainfall, an official said. Some of the
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Nigeria: Govt Rescues Abia Community From Erosion Menace
Umuahia — SUCCOUR has come the way of erosion ravaged Amachara community, Umuahia South Council of Abia State, as the Federal Government, last week, commissioned a N400 million flood erosion control project
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Hurricanes threaten Caribbean countries still recovering from 2017 storms- officials
The onset of hurricane season this week could prove disastrous for Caribbean nations that were slammed by storms last year and are still struggling to rebuild in the face of funding shortfalls, said regional
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34 dead in dust storm in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
At least 34 persons died after parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were hit by dust storm and lightning on Monday evening, officials said on Tuesday. Nineteen died in Bihar as winds with speed of up to 70