Is it time to rethink humanitarian insurance?
Could more access to insurance help governments of poorer countries deal with more climate-related disasters?
With smart crops and cash, Kenya women slash female genital mutilation
To gain more power and debunk myths that shore up practices like FGM, women are learning farming and business skills.
Banking on resilience: Building capacities through financial services inclusion
Financial inclusion has the potential to help vulnerable groups in developing countries become more resilient to climate extremes and global warming.
India wins praise for 'exemplary' flood relief as community pitches in
Flooding on the scale seen in Kerala could have killed 10 times more people a decade ago, but India's disaster management capacity has improved significantly in that time
“That’s not my job!” Responsibility of getting evaluation results into use
Is getting evaluation evidence into use by decision makers the responsibility of those doing the evaluations, or no?
How does social protection build resilience?
A series of briefings assess evidence from Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia on how large-scale national social protection programmes contribute to resilience.
Shaking up farming in Nepal
Climate-smart agriculture and vegetable cooperatives are boosting incomes in weather-hit Nepal
As pastoralist land shrinks, Maasai women take livestock lead
Maasai women gain a bigger role in livestock raising, once the domain of men
Tanzanian herders, hit by drought, trade firewood for food
Rangelands threatened further as pastoralists struggling to graze animals sell firewood so their families can eat
Shaking up farming in rural Nepal
Farmers in rural Nepal are plagued by extreme poverty resulting from recurring disasters like droughts, floods and earthquakes. How can they build resilience?