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This document is a role-playing card for a 'social lottery' exercise featuring a character named Semir, a pastoralist in Ethiopia, designed to facilitate group discussions on drought, information access, and community initiatives.

This document is a role-playing character profile for a person named Ishmael, a 35-year-old grain trader in Kul-Bayne, designed for a social lottery game to simulate perspectives on drought and community response.

This document is a role-playing card for a 'Social Lottery' game used in Ethiopia, designed to simulate the perspective of an elderly woman facing economic and health challenges due to drought.

This document is a role-playing scenario for a character named Zainab, an environmental worker and civil servant tasked with leading a climate vulnerability and risk assessment and developing adaptation plans for Kul-Bayne.

This guide presents a scenario based in Krishna Nagar, a low-income neighbourhood in an Indian coastal city, to illustrate the process of climate vulnerability assessment and the development of resilience plans through community consultation.

This document is a role-playing exercise guide designed to simulate the process of conducting a climate vulnerability and risk assessment and developing adaptation plans in Krishna Nagar.

This document is a role-playing exercise designed to simulate the perspective of a 32-year-old woman in an urban South Asian setting who faces intersecting challenges of domestic violence, unemployment within the household, and vulnerability to flooding.

This document is a role-playing exercise guide designed for a group activity, providing a persona for a 35-year-old IT-savvy public institution employee living in Krishna Nagar to simulate perspectives on flood impacts and community disaster management.

This document is a role-playing exercise guide designed to help participants empathize with a physically impaired herder facing economic and psychological distress due to recurrent floods and conflict.

This document is a role-playing exercise guide designed for a group discussion, featuring a persona of an elderly woman in South Asia facing economic instability and physical vulnerability during flood events.

This document is a role-playing exercise designed for a group discussion, featuring a persona of an 18-year-old Muslim boy living in Krishna Nagar who is affected by flooding.

This document is a role-playing exercise designed for a group discussion, featuring a persona of a 13-year-old girl from a socially marginalised class facing the impacts of flooding and social discrimination.

This document is a role-playing exercise designed for a group discussion, centering on the experiences of a 28-year-old transgender woman living in a marginalized community facing the impacts of flooding.

This briefing presents ten recommendations from experts in India, Pakistan, and Nepal for the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Key proposals include mandating community involvement in monitoring, integrating DRR with climate change adaptation, addressing urban risks in informal settlements, and mainstreaming DRR into national budgets and local financial institutions.

This briefing, written by Lailai Li of the Stockholm Environment Institute for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, reviews the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) with a focus on challenges and responses in Asian countries. It examines national renewable energy targets in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and China, the role of legal instruments and financing mechanisms like revolving funds, and the need for capacity building to manage renewable energy technologies.

This fact sheet outlines a stakeholder map for water security and climate resilient development, categorizing the risks, services, supporting activities, organizations, and specialist capacities involved in managing water resources.

This strategic framework, developed by the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP), provides a phased approach for African nations to integrate water security and climate resilience into their national development planning and investment decision-making processes.

This report by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) examines the intersection of economic growth and climate change, specifically focusing on the needs of developing countries. It argues for 'climate compatible development'—a strategy that minimizes climate harm while maximizing human development opportunities. The document outlines ten propositions, asserting that while growth is an imperative for poverty reduction in poor nations, it must be transitioned toward low-carbon models to be sustainable. It emphasizes the need for national strategies, the leveraging of private finance, and the creation of political consensus to manage the disruptive shifts in global production and markets caused by climate policy.

This document provides facilitator and trainer instructions for the GESI (gender and social inclusion) bingo game, a training tool designed to help project managers implement inclusive measures within climate projects and programmes.

The 'Gender equality and social inclusion bingo game' is a facilitator's tool designed to help project and programme practitioners assess and commit to strategic, structural, and operational measures for gender equality and social inclusion (GESI).