This report discusses weather and climate services in Africa, and provides guidance for policy and program-makers around public-private partnerships to increase financing in this sector.
This technical note tests a novel data collection approach that relies on crowdsourcing data from multinational enterprises with operations across many geographies. This is eventually intended to allow effective response to water crises, providing empirical, comparable, global information on the state of public water management.
This brief focuses on COVID-19 responses targeted at strengthening risk governance – although comprehensive risk management is (or should be) the very foundation of any “green” stimulus measure and proposition by governments, multilateral organisations, academia, civil society, and other actors at the national and international level in order to achieve a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient recovery from the pandemic. The compilation shows that, to date, it is mainly international and civil society organisations pointing out the link to DRR, but some governments are highlighting the necessity to strengthen their risk governance to build forward better and prepare themselves for future shocks.
This report analyzes how deforestation in the Amazon Basin is linked with weak governance, insecurity and conflict, and inadequate infrastructure planning in the region
This report examines how the Government of India (GoI) has used subsidies to support different types of energy, updating two previous reviews of India’s energy subsidies.