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CASCADE – Community Safety Action for Supporting Climate Adaptation and Development

Project / Community Safety Action for Supporting Climate Adaptation and Development (CASCADE) develops new tactics to prevent disasters and address climate risks.

Moving toward inclusion of gender equality in climate change adaptation action

Perspective / This year's Asia Pacific Adaptation Forum recognized gender in climate change adaptation, but many of its complexities have yet to be addressed.

A typology framework for trade-offs in development and disaster risk reduction: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan recovery in Tacloban, Philippines

Journal article / This paper presents and tests a conceptual framework for analysing the trade-offs that underpin the relationship between development and disaster risk.

Change story: Gender in water and sanitation – empowerment by numbers 

Feature / If decision-making imbalances are ignored, adaptation can perpetuate inequalities. Find out how a new index will identify imbalances and measure success.

Economic development and declining vulnerability to climate-related disasters in China

Journal article / Using China as a case study, this article calls for more nuanced understanding of the different pathways of climate change vulnerability effects.

Gendered experiences of adaptation to drought: patterns of change in El Sauce, Nicaragua

Journal article / Vulnerability is highly diverse and locally specific. This analysis is based on a qualitative case study in a drought-stricken part of northwest Nicaragua.

Empowerment in WASH index

Project / The empowerment in WASH index (EWI) project measures empowerment and social inclusion of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions.

Is adaptation reducing vulnerability or redistributing it?

Journal article / As connections between people and places intensify, it seems likely that adaptation responses might shift risks and vulnerability between people and places

Exploring gender inequality in the Lower Mekong Region: Creating a sub-national Gender Inequality Index (GII)

Perspective / SEI is developing a gender inequality index for Cambodia and Vietnam for better analysis of gender gaps and vulnerabilities in the Mekong Region.