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Analysis: How to avoid a fourth year of serious flooding in Pakistan
21 May 2013
(IRIN
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Since 2010, monsoon rain in Pakistan has brought with it some of the biggest seasonal flooding in living memory.
Two months from this year’s rains, weather forecasters are already predicting above normal rainfall and in some areas standing water has yet to drain away from last year’s monsoon.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98071/Analysis-How-to-avoid-a-fourth-year-of-serious-flooding-in-Pakistan
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Evacuation volunteers fan out in Bangladesh
16 May 2013
(IRIN
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Some 50,000 volunteers in coastal communities across southern Bangladesh are out and about warning people to move to higher ground ahead of Cyclone Mahasen. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated so far.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98046/Evacuation-volunteers-fan-out-in-Bangladesh
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Bangladesh, Myanmar brace for Cyclone Mahasen
13 May 2013
(IRIN
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Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing for Cyclone Mahasen, a storm which could affect millions in the region, the UN has warned.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98024/Bangladesh-Myanmar-brace-for-Cyclone-Mahasen
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Analysis: Getting governments to cough up for DRR
9 May 2013
(IRIN
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Investing in preparation for potential disasters is a “no brainer”, Elizabeth Longworth, director of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), told a recent disaster risk reduction (DRR) conference in Aqaba, Jordan.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98003/Analysis-Getting-governments-to-cough-up-for-DRR
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Countering the radicalization of Kenya's youth
6 May 2013
(IRIN
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Unemployment, poverty and political marginalization are contributing to the Islamic radicalization of Kenya's youth, a situation experts say must be addressed through economic empowerment and inclusive policies.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97982/Countering-the-radicalization-of-Kenya-s-youth
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Arab cities aim to build resilience to natural disasters
29 April 2013
(IRIN
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Prevention may be better than a cure, but for the authorities in Arab cities and towns, natural disasters up to now have been largely about coping with them after they have taken place.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97941/Arab-cities-aim-to-build-resilience-to-natural-disasters
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Imagining a major quake in Kathmandu
26 April 2013
(IRIN
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It is the nightmare scenario aid workers and government officials have long feared: a massive earthquake striking Nepal’s densely populated Kathmandu Valley, with tens of thousands feared dead.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97925/Imagining-a-major-quake-in-Kathmandu
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Philippines’ natural disaster risks shift, along with experts
10 April 2013
(IRIN
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As the storm season approaches, officials in the Philippines are turning to seasoned storm emergency responders to help prepare communities that have historically been spared devastation but that now find themselves in harm’s way.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97816/Philippines-natural-disaster-risks-shift-along-with-experts
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Will Somalia get enough rain this year?
28 March 2013
(IRIN
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Parts of southern Somalia are yet to recover from the battering they took in 2010-2011, when severe drought followed excessive rain, and now the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) says insufficient rain may fall in the coming months. "We are concerned - our forecast shows that there is 80 percent probability that rains could trend from normal to below normal across Somalia," said Gideon Galu, a regional FEWS NET scientist based in Africa.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97744/Will-Somalia-get-enough-rain-this-year
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Gender relations are changing along with climate
25 March 2013
(IRIN
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A changing climate will inevitably have an impact on gender relations in conservative rural communities, but not enough is being done to boost the resilience of women - already disadvantaged by traditions of inequality.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97727/Gender-relations-are-changing-along-with-climate
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Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab world
20 March 2013
(IRIN
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Nearly 300 government officials, scientists, aid workers and activists from across the Arab world are working together in Jordan to draw up the first joint regional platform for disaster risk reduction (DRR).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97685/Disaster-Risk-Reduction-in-the-Arab-world
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Cholera outbreak in Congo
15 March 2013
(IRIN
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An influx of migrants from the countryside into the Republic of Congo's second largest city, Pointe-Noire, is exacerbating a cholera outbreak that began in November 2012. The outbreak infected at least 389 and killed 10, according to the health ministry and local authorities.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97661/Cholera-outbreak-in-Congo
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Tallying natural disaster-related losses
15 March 2013
(IRIN
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For three consecutive years, natural hazards have cost the world more than US$100 billion a year, according to new data from the Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), released in Geneva on 14 March. But even this high figure only takes into account primarily insured losses in rich countries, and does not reflect losses in the developing world, said CRED Director Debby Guha-Sapir.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97655/Tallying-natural-disaster-related-losses
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Grim food security outlook for Zimbabwe*
14 March 2013
(IRIN
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Laina Tavengwa, 34, from Wedza District in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland East Province, no longer sees a point in farming her family’s four-hectare plot.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97645/Grim-food-security-outlook-for-Zimbabwe
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Drought response requires getting development right
14 March 2013
(IRIN
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It takes more than weathermen and agriculture experts to design an effective drought response policy.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97647/Drought-response-requires-getting-development-right
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Building resilience
8 March 2013
(IRIN
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A series of articles exploring what resilience means for vulnerable communities, and its impact on the architecture of aid.
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/97594/105/Building-resilience
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Building flash flood resilience in Pakistan’s mountainous regions
7 March 2013
(IRIN
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In his village near Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Nazeer Butt, 40, points to his ruined house on a steep mountainside.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97606/Building-flash-flood-resilience-in-Pakistan-s-mountainous-regions
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In Kenya, information strengthens pastoralists' resilience
6 March 2013
(IRIN
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Inadequate access to information, such as weather forecasts, has hampered Kenyan pastoralists' ability to respond and adapt to climate change, experts say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97603/In-Kenya-information-strengthens-pastoralists-resilience
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Giving communities a voice in resilience
5 March 2013
(IRIN
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Contrary to popular belief, most rural communities facing recurrent climate shocks learn to adapt, using their own resources and knowledge. Yet many international aid programmes have outside “experts” craft interventions without the involvement of those they seek to help.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97595/Giving-communities-a-voice-in-resilience
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Export oil, import water – the Middle East’s risky economics
5 March 2013
(IRIN
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The world’s driest region, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is getting drier at an alarming rate.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97596/Export-oil-import-water-the-Middle-East-s-risky-economics
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