Resilience results: BRACED Extension Final Evaluation
This report presents a synthesis of nine project-level final evaluations, carried out after an 18-month, extension to the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme.
Staying safe from disasters pays, but will funders listen?
Work is underway to show the economic benefits of investing to make cities and communities more resilient
Climate migration to surge unless emissions are curbed - World Bank
"We have a small window now, before the effects of climate change deepen, to prepare the ground for this new reality."
Should aid work stop when militants move in?
Development groups grapple with the insecurity that limits help for those who most need it in fragile states
Kenyan farmers develop taste for insects as drought hurts crops
Insects like termites can provide additional nutrition and income when extreme weather hits traditional harvests
No fruit – but maybe a path forward
Action on climate change is still lagging – but solving problems other people want solved could help
Resilience is all about "small victories" on the ground
How do you help people overcome climate and other stresses? Ask them and work with what they know
Wild crops could save chickpeas from being blitzed, scientists say
They (wild crops) may be our most potent weapon against climate change.
Innovation needed to turn on climate cash tap for the poor
Once communities start seeking their own solutions to climate change, governments and others get interested
Climate forecasts could help drought-hit herders make smarter moves
Knowing what rain might come can help pastoralists decide where to move, and whether to sell