Benin country climate and development report
This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) proposes that Benin focuses on building a resilient economy, with investment and policy options primarily targeted at adapting to climate change risks.
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Policy coherence between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: case study- Benin
In response to the need to support efficient implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sendai Framework in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is supporting
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Analysis of DRR inclusion in national climate change commitments
The purpose of this study was to review selected National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)/Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and contributing documents to better understand how disaster risk management
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Mainstreaming climate adaptation planning and action into health systems in Fiji, Ghana, and Benin
Climate change is impacting human health and straining heavily burdened health services everywhere. Recognition of the linkages between climate change and health systems, such as shifts in vector-borne
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Updated COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan
<p>The UN’s Humanitarian Chief, Mark Lowcock, has called for swift and determined action to avoid the most destabilizing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as he releases a $6.7 billion appeal and
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The P20 in Benin: From consultation to consensus
<p>The P20 approach focuses on a small number of indicators linked to the SDGs to assess whether the people in the poorest 20% of the population (the P20) are being included in progress. To leave no one
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African Economic Outlook 2020
<p>Africa’s economic growth has stabilized at 3.4 percent in 2019 and is expected to pick up to 3.9 percent in 2020 and 4.1 percent in 2021 but to remain below historical highs. Growth’s fundamentals
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Assessing the climate-smartness of the West Africa agricultural productivity programme (WAAPP): what can we learn from Benin, Guinea, Niger, Togo and Chad projects?
This info note summarizes the findings from participatory assessments of the climate-smartness of World Bank funded West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP)”. This activity was implemented
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The cost of coastal zone degradation in West Africa
Beyond the shattered lives, the harsh consequences of erosion, pollution and flooding are very costly to Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Togo. A new World Bank study reveals in economic terms the cost
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Aid must be directed to the world's poorest, as income gap increases- report
Development aid is failing to improve the lives of the poorest 20 percent of the world's population, according to a report published on Thursday that predicted growing global inequality. Poverty rates