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Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection: Complementary Roles in Agriculture and Rural Growth? (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Davies, M., Guenther, B., Leavy, J., Michell, T., & Tanner, T. Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection: Complementary Roles in Agriculture and Rural Growth?. Brighton

Reliance on subsistence agriculture means the impact of stresses and shocks (such as droughts or floods) are felt keenly by rural poor people, who depend directly on food system outcomes for their survival, with profound implications for the security... Read More about Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection: Complementary Roles in Agriculture and Rural Growth?.

Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Tanner, T., Mitchell, T., Polack, E., & Guenther, B. Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities. Brighton

Rapidly expanding urban settlements in the developing world face severe climatic risks in light of climate change. Urban populations will increasingly be forced to cope with increased incidents of flooding, air and water pollution, heat stress and ve... Read More about Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities.

Transformative Education in Violent Contexts: Working with Muslim and Christian Youth in Kaduna, Nigeria (2009)
Journal Article
Harris, C. Transformative Education in Violent Contexts: Working with Muslim and Christian Youth in Kaduna, Nigeria. IDS Bulletin, 40(3), 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00036.x

This article discusses one approach to producing social change used in a transformative education project carried out in 2007/08 in Kaduna, Nigeria. Its participants were Muslim and Christian youth and the setting one in which, in the wake of recent... Read More about Transformative Education in Violent Contexts: Working with Muslim and Christian Youth in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk? (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bayliss, K. Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk?. Brasilia, Brazil

Policies to promote privatisation in developing-country infrastructure gained momentum in the early 1990s as donors grew increasingly frustrated with efforts to strengthen public sector services that continued to fail. The strategy was intended to br... Read More about Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk?.