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Human rights perspectives on climate change adaptation: Civil society experiences in Cambodia and Kenya

Christoplos, Ian; Funder, Mikkel; McGinn, Colleen; … - 2014

Kenya are approaching the issue of human rights in their efforts to support climate change adaptation. The report finds that …

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Malaria and Dengue: Understanding two infectious diseases affecting developing countries and their link to climate change

Alas, Mirza - 2021

Developing countries will face more complex challenges as infectious disease patterns transform due to climate change and climate variability. These challenges include how to reduce the incidence of malaria (including the significant challenge of resistant malaria), dengue, and other...

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Refugee policy and selective implementation of the comprehensive refugee response framework in Kenya

Jacobi, Milan; Jaji, Rose - 2022

Kenya's refugee policy has morphed over time due to factors that include security threats, regional geo-politics and … policy in Kenya. It provides a historical overview of refugee policy in the country, highlighting the factors that account … for policy fluctuations, contradictions and differential treatment of refugees hosted in Kenya, which is one of the pilot …

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Devolved finance and governance of climate change adaptation

Friis-Hansen, Esbern; Lindegaard, Lily Salloum; … - 2022

Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, adaptation debates have increasingly shifted from focusing narrowly on finance to considerations around governance of programming, implementation and impact of support for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The character of finance for climate change...

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Country-level politics around the SDGs: Analysing political will as a critical element of the Mid-Term Review of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs

Beisheim, Marianne (contributor) - 2023

The SDG Summit will take place on 18-19 September 2023 in New York. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called it the 'centrepiece' of the UN's work this year. Numerous reports for this year's mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs will lament the 'lack of political will' to...

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Left on our own: COVID-19, TRIPS-Plus Free Trade Agreements, and the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health

Omino, Melissa; Kahumbu, Joanna - 2022

The cusp of the twentieth anniversary of the WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (hereafter "the Declaration") was marked by a global pandemic. The Declaration and its iteration in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (hereafter...

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Nature-based green infrastructure: A review of African experience and potential

Dupar, Mairi; Henriette, Elvina; Hubbard, Eric - 2023

The African continent needs $68-108 billion in new financing each year to bridge its critical infrastructure gaps, according to President Adesina of the African Development Bank. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) calculates that climate change adaptation alone will cost Africa up...

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One-stop border posts (OSBPs): An assessment of the economic and social impact

Ayele, Yohannes; Calabrese, Linda; Gharib, Mohamed; … - 2023

household expenditure. To assess the impact of OSBPs, the study analysed the Busia (Kenya-Uganda) and Taveta-Holili (Kenya …

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One-stop border posts in East Africa: Impact on transport costs and issues for further analysis

Mendez Parra, Maximiliano; Calabrese, Linda - 2023

significant for borders that had long crossing times to start with, with Holili (Kenya-Tanzania) and Mutukula (Uganda … Kenya. The consequent reduction in operational transport costs is higher for traffic entering Uganda and Tanzania, leading …

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Locally-led adaptation: Moving from principles to practice in the water sector

Bedelian, Claire; Mulwa, Judith; Sumari, Beatrice; … - 2024

adaptation case studies in Kenya and Tanzania. It focuses on the governance and finance processes that prioritise the agency of …

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