Mardi, 5 Novembre 2024
Ritu Bharadwaj and Daljeet Kaur discuss how women leaders in India are showing the way for enhancing access to social protection and delivering climate resilience at scale.
Mardi, 1 Octobre 2024
Social protection systems and programmes are crucial for both social and economic reasons. They safeguard individuals from falling into poverty due to social risks that prevent them from working and earning, such as old age, disability, loss of a...
Mardi, 1 Octobre 2024
Future global shocks demonstrate the capacity for extensive and devastating repercussions that surpass national borders. Ten years into the future, global risks such as failure to mitigate climate change, failure of climate change adaptation, and natural...
Jeudi, 25 Juin 2024
Households that received the transfer were far less likely to go a day without eating, reported higher child food consumption and wellbeing after the floods hit, lost fewer assets, and had better earnings potential post-flooding. And these benefits...
Jeudi, 30 Mai 2024
For almost three weeks straight in May 2024, heavy rains relentlessly pounded the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, causing devastating floods that claimed 169 lives and forced some 600,000 people to leave their homes. The urgency for...
Dimanche, 25 juin 2023
Humanitarian needs have reached an unprecedented high. Today, around 339 million require lifesaving humanitarian assistance. Multiple protracted conflicts, coupled with a rise in global food prices and the increasingly devastating impacts of climate...
Mardi, 7 Mars 2023
Everyone, regardless of their gender, has different experiences from disasters. Gender dynamics impact both how people are affected by disasters as well as their capacity to withstand and recover from them. For example, in Mozambique, prevailing social...
Mardi, 24 Janvier 2023
Regions within Pakistan have been vulnerable to and impacted by climate-related disasters long before the widespread flooding of 2022. In Chitral, a district in the north of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, flooding and landslide risks from monsoon systems...
Mardi, 10 Janvier 2023
When natural disasters displace households, impacts on welfare can last for years after the event and vary depending on the extent of response. While climate change threatens to increase the frequency and severity of natural disasters, studying the...
Lundi, 12 Septembre 2022
‘Parametric’ insurance could offer farmers quicker relief when they lose their crops to floods, storms, and other climate-driven calamities. Climate change is causing frequent heat waves, erratic rainfall, flooding, and other extreme weather events that...
