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The training modules were developed within the framework of the United Nations Development Account (UNDA) project on “Developing the Capacities of the Arab Countries for Climate Change Adaptation by Applying IWRM Tools”. The modules build upon work conducted under the Regional Initiative for the...

Climate change in the federated states of Micronesia: Food and water security, climate risk management, and adaptive strategies This is a report of findings following research and a three-week field assessment (April 2009) of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in response to nation-wide marine...

At 8, Madhav Datt founded Green the Gene as a small environmental club in school, and over the years scaled it to become the world’s largest completely youth-run environmental non-profit. He works with local communities all over the world facing acute environmental crises that need immediate...

Using the power of the sun to heat and treat water in Kenya’s urban slum Solvatten uses the power of the sun to make contaminated water drinkable. Petra Wadström, the Founder and CEO of Solvatten talks about her company’s efforts. https://soundcloud.com/momentumforchange/using-the-power-of-the-sun...

Around 40 % of Africa’s maize-growing area faces occasional drought stress, resulting in yield losses of 10–25 %. Around 25 % of the maize crop suffers frequent droughts, with losses of up to half the harvest. To reduce vulnerability and improve food security, the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa...

This paper explores the relationships between climate change, humanitarian crises, and humanitarian response through a review of published and grey literature. The paper examines the historical evidence for associations between climate change and humanitarian crises, and then move on to a brief...

This study is about the growing scientific analysis suggesting that the impacts of current and recent droughts in East Africa are likely to have been aggravated by climate change. A climate in crisis How climate change is making drought and humanitarian disaster worse in East Africa Nearly thirteen...

Global Emergency Group (GEG) and Centre for Humanitarian Change (CHC) conducted a Real Time Evaluation of UNICEF’s drought response from August 2016 to December 2017 in Kenya with the overall purpose of strengthening both UNICEF’s current and future programming based on real-time feedback and...