Efficacitas Consulting was founded in 1994 with the mission to work for sustainable resource management throughout Latin America, providing consulting services in energy, environment and sustainable development. Efficacitas fulfils its mission with professional competence and ethics by providing technical assistance, driven by excellence and innovation, to companies, governmental and nongovernmental organizations involved in natural resource management and conservation.
Practical Action Consulting (PAC) is the consulting arm of Practical Action, an international non-governmental organisation that uses technology to challenge poverty in developing countries. Through technology PAC enables poor communities to build on their skills and knowledge to produce sustainable and practical solutions - transforming their lives forever and protecting the world around them. Every year PAC uses technology to help over 1 million people out of poverty.
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources IUCN's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
As awareness of climate change and disaster risk reduction increases there is a real opportunity to reduce current and future vulnerabilities to climate risks by expanding on disaster risk management efforts. This paper discusses links and disparities between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, including opportunities and barriers for collaboration.Given that there is a direct influence from development processes on vulnerability to climate change hazards it is essential that risk management takes place within the development context.
This document details a toolkit aimed at strengthening community level risk assessment practice.
ICIMOD is a regional intergovernmental institution established in 1983 with the mission to serve the HKH region through information and knowledge generation and sharing to find solutions to critical mountain problems. ICIMOD bridges science with policies and on-the-ground practices. It provides a regional platform where policy makers, experts, planners, and practitioners can exchange ideas and perspectives towards the achievement of sustainable mountain development.
The acceleration of global climate change and the increasing risk posed by a range of natural, environmental and technological hazards is one of the Caribbean’s most critical development problems. Climate change associated risks are magnified in the region, given the number of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), fragile resource base and limited development options.
Accelerating climate change is posing greater environmental and natural disaster risks to the Caribbean region. This document is an executive summary providing an overview of a multi-agency study presented by the Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI). Its focus is on the gendered dimensions of climate change and disaster risk management and adaptation in the Caribbean region. Its primary objective is to help improve policies and practices by analysing the ways in which men and women are differently impacted.
This report offers insights on how to operationalize the process of disaster risk reduction and integration in a way that fosters risk-sensitive development. A critical part of disaster risk management is getting the right information to the right people at the right times.