Financial services boost household resilience in Uganda
Savings groups are an easy way to improve poor communities' access to financial services.
Climate and conflict, bedfellows of disaster?
It's impossible to build climate resilience without understanding conflict dynamics.
Water-smart agriculture could cut migration risk - FAO
Two-thirds of the world's people suffer some water scarcity for part of each year
Solar water pumps up incomes for Nepal's quake-hit farmers
Solar irrigation is boosting Nepalese farmers' jobs, income and community spirit.
Could tackling climate change help bring peace to South Sudan?
Climate adaptation efforts can help restore a dialogue between clans.
Social investors see the light on clean energy for the poor
We need to stay committed until we get the job done...this can't be a fad.
U.N. collates global disaster data to help reduce risk
It is impossible to prevent disasters and to manage risk if a country is not measuring its disaster losses.
Climate change a 'man-made problem with a feminist solution'
Women are most adversely affected by disasters and yet are rarely "put front and centre" of efforts to protect the most vulnerable
What’s the right goal - resilience, well-being or transformation?
“How can we claim we are promoting resilience if we’re not paying attention to people’s priorities?”
Urban nomads: Mongolian herders battle a new future
As climate-driven drought takes hold, Mongolia's nomads are retreating to the city - and facing choking pollution