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This study, commissioned by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD), responds to a call by governments in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 2014 Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action to assess and provide guidance on the response in those regions to cross- border displacement in the context of disasters linked to natural hazards and climate change (hereinafter ‘disaster displacement’).2

This document sets out key legal considerations relevant for the protection of people fleeing conflict and famine affected countries, by outlining the applicability of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees1 and its 1967 Protocol2 (1951 Convention) as well as the broader refugee criteria included in the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa (1969 OAU Convention).

This Toolbox, developed by Georgetown University, UNHCR, and IOM in close cooperation with the World Bank and UN University, seeks to provide concrete suggestions for States and other actors who are contemplating or planning to relocate people in order to

This overview sets out recommendations, based on the present study, to strengthen implementation of refugee law-based international protection when cross-border movements occur in the context of nexus dynamics. It does so by examining four case studies, which concern:

– Kenya and Ethiopia’s responses, primarily during 2011–2012, to the cross-border movement of Somalis in the context of drought, food insecurity and famine, when conflict and violence also prevailed in southern and central Somalia; and

– Brazil and Mexico’s responses, primarily during 2010–2012, to the cross-border movement of Haitians in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, when insecurity, violence and human rights violations also prevailed in Haiti.

The objectives of this mapping are to:

• Enhance dissemination of the existing tools and guidance;
• Identify key opportunities to further develop tools and guidance, to enhance coherence between tools and guidance and to ensure better implementation of existing tools and guidance;
• Inform the development of recommendations related to tools and guidance by the Task Force on Displacement; and
• Inform the work of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage as it pertains to tools and guidance.

Greening Technical and Vocational Education and Training: a practical guide for institutions is designed to help leaders and practitioners of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in improving their understanding of, and implementing, education for sustainable development (ESD).

It is guided by a whole-institution approach, and uses a step-by-step process that can be applied in an institutional setting. The process consists of four steps: understanding, planning, implementing, and monitoring and assessment. The Guide identifies several key elements to assist TVET leaders and their institutional teams in understanding the steps in greening their institutions and programmes. It explains the need for, and the institutional benefits of, greening. It also addresses key elements for creating the rationale and strategy prior to launching the first step. The core elements of creating an institutional greening plan (IGP), addressing short, medium and long-term goals, are outlined in Step 2. Then Steps 3 and 4 address suggestions for implementing, developing and assessing the e greening process.

The UNICEF Youth website provides several activities, materials, lessons, and resources on climate action for students to discuss the impacts of climate change on the world and the humanitarian effects that it causes. Students will also gain knowledge in their own role to fight for climate justice and the movements that have already taken shape by young people around the globe.

This teaching guide provides key elements on how to integrate the theme forest into the classroom. It helps youth to understand forest as well as effective pedagogical approach for teachering plan. 

This training manual aims at exploring the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security as well as presenting key concepts on climate-smart agriculture including gender dimensions. 

This activity book for kids explores key concepts of climate change and its relation to food waste, natural resources, fisheries, and food systems. 

This activity book is for young people interested in learning more about healthy diets. 

YUNGA Youth Guides allow you to explore three themes such as Ocean, Forest and Biodiversity more closely, building a detailed understanding of the issues at hand and the ways in which you can get involved. They also contain links to additional resources and information so you can keep learning independently.

This case study focuses on innovative solutions that the Nepal Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) Community of Practice (COP) has introduced to increase water security. It also looks at how ancient practices are being reinstated to revive dried-up springs. New uncertainty on the availability of freshwater resources in many parts of the world call for global climate efforts to focus on transformative actions that increase water security, and to reduce the impact on vulnerable communities. The Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) PPCR is funding many such initiatives.

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

This case study captures emerging trends in adaptation-directed microfinance in Jamaica. Microfinance is a critical enabler of climate resilience because it provides communities with direct access to the financial resources they require to address their most pressing needs. The findings in this case study have emerged from a variety of country interventions funded by the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR).

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

This case study captures emerging trends in adaptation-directed microfinance in Tajikistan. Microfinance is a critical enabler of climate resilience because it provides communities with direct access to the financial resources they require to address their most pressing needs. The findings in this case study have emerged from a variety of country interventions funded by the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR).

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

The case studies presented in this research brief provide some examples of how Caribbean countries under the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) are working towards achieving enhanced water resilience through decentralized solutions. These include rainwater harvesting, community storage tanks, and small-scale desalination. In addition, the case studies point towards the factors that affect the adoption of such solutions.

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

This research brief uses a case study approach to document best practice and innovation on intermediated, concessional, microfinance mechanisms that have arisen from a variety of climate-direction interventions funded through the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). It shows that using intermediated, concessionary finance to enable inclusive, microfinance solutions allows communities vulnerable to climate change to adapt and build resilience by financing income-producing activities, building up their assets, stabilizing consumption and taking measures to protect themselves against climate risks.

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

The objective of this learning review is to learn lessons from the experience of the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF)  Forest Investment Program (FIP) and other initiatives in supporting investments in forest-related enterprises. The study identifies key barriers and risks that impact leveraging private finance and examines how to overcome these challenges to increase the viability and scale of private-sector investments, with an emphasis on small and medium-scale enterprises.

FIP works primarily through multilateral development banks (MDBs) to put in place enabling investments, with aspirations towards piloting replicable models of REDD+ asset investment that will attract new and additional sources of finance.

This learning review aims to capture the experience of the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Forest Investment Program (FIP) in encouraging greater involvement of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in financial and policy processes that relate to forests. It focuses on the use of an innovative Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) and serves as a resource for stakeholders – including forest-dependent communities, DGM practitioners, donors, multilateral development banks and climate funds – to understand the early outcomes of the DGM and identify useful lessons and insights to guide current and future DGM implementation.

The DGM is a special initiative under FIP to support the full and effective participation of IPLCs in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and promote sustainable forest management and forest carbon stocks, a global process known as REDD+.

This study reviews the conditions that enabled the successful structuring of the few recent private sector investments in African forestry. It aims to assess the current market potential for commercial forestry in Africa, to analyze alternative investment models for its development, and to advise on the feasibility of a dedicated fund promoting new and additional investments in the sector.

Findings from this study are intended to support the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kenya in evaluating and designing alternative private funding models for commercial forestry in Africa with a view to ultimately establish, or aid the establishment of, a specialized investment vehicle for commercial forestry plantations.