Disasters affect lives and infrastructure. Because of disasters, infrastructures built over the years often do not fully fulfill their intended services. Affected countries oftentimes have to restart their development by diverting funds and aid money to get them ‘back on track’ toward economic and social...

All five countries in Central Asia are vulnerable to climate change and face common climate challenges that impact social, economic and environmental development. The emerging climate change impacts in Central Asia are becoming well-recognised and the countries are focusing on reducing vulnerability and moving towards...

The ASEAN region is not without agricultural technological innovations. Outstanding examples of technological innovations—hardware, software, and orgware—are being adopted by ASEAN nations. These include old techniques used in a new context (Climate Field Schools, Indonesia), to the re-adoption of ancient techniques proving indigenous knowledge as...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the newest financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Under the scope of Article 11 of the UNFCCC, the GCF was established at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) with an aim to achieve overriding...

Thoughts and insights from some of Adaptation Fund's National Implementing Entities (NIEs) on the Fund's accreditation and direct access.

This manual aims at strengthening capacity of key stakeholders and was designed for officials of the Government of Nepal, representatives of civil society and other organizations working on climate adaptation planning. It consists of six modules for understanding climate change, its impacts, vulnerability assessment and...

The working paper was developed by ICIMOD, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) and the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) collaboratively. The author provides insight on the status, challenges and opportunities for agriculture and non-agriculture activities which would help achieve food security specifically in the mountainous...

The aim of this study was to assess the costs borne by local residents when faced by floods in the city of Can Tho, Vietnam. The author identifies components of economic loss (direct and indirect costs) at different stages of floods (before, during and after...

This 12-minute docu-drama is produced by Plan Bangladesh under the “Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation: Build Safe and Resilient Communities” project. The film aims at raising awareness amongst youths to the impacts of cutting down trees and climate change. The filmmakers follow two children from the...

The policy brief explains the importance of assessing urban loss and damage in both the formal and informal sectors, and of economic and non-economic types to provide a clearer picture of impacts of climate change. It discusses some of the issues and reviews key drivers...