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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. The national picture: climate trends in Uganda

    Publication - Briefing papers - 14 October 2011
    With agriculture providing about 70% of Uganda’s export earnings and the primary economic activity for much of its population, livelihoods are particularly sensitive to the fluctuations and uncertainties of seasonal rainfall. This policy brief provides a summary of climate trends in Uganda and recommendations for providing support to communities.
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  2. Climate trends in Ethiopia: summary of ACCRA research in three sites

    Publication - Briefing papers - 14 October 2011
    This ACCRA brief summarises research conducted by the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) in three sites in Ethiopia in 2010-11. The brief provides a summary of the impacts of climate hazards, variability and change on livelihoods in all three locations, and concludes with key recommendations for action.
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  4. Infrastructure and water strategies for climate compatible development

    Event - Public event - 5 October 2011 18:00 - 19:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

    This event launches two recent reports that discuss the role of the infrastructure sector in meeting the challenge of climate change in the developing world: ‘Climate compatible development in the infrastructure sector’ and 'Climate change and WASH [Water, Sanitation and Hygiene]: A Scoping Study.

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  5. Climate change, water resources and WASH: a scoping study

    Publication - Discussion papers - 30 September 2011
    ODI Working Papers 337
    Roger Calow, Helen Bonsor, Lindsey Jones, Simon O’Meally, Alan MacDonald, Nanki Kaur
    Water is predicted to be the primary medium through which early climate change impacts will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. However, impacts on water resources and water-dependent services have yet to be adequately addressed in either scientific analyses or water policy. This report aims to fill some of these knowledge gaps.
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  6. Pipelines and donkey carts - A social risk analysis of water availability, access and use in Nyala, South Darfur

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 September 2011
    Alan Nicol, Mohamed Abdulrahman Elamin and Nawal Hassan Osman with Mahbouba Abdelrahman Ali, Suleiman Mohamed Nour, Tayalla Elmedani, Sumaya Mohamed Yagoub and Aisha Mustafa El-Neima Mohamed
    This study seeks to examine the social impact of increased water availability in Nyala, provided for through Darfur Urban Water Supply Project, particularly to understand in more detail how the existing ‘water economy’ of Nyala may change as the resource is made more available via an expanded town network, and how this change may affect the poor and contribute to or mitigate future conflict.
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  7. Piped networks, pit latrines, and the politics of access to water supply and sanitation services: what role for political analysis in the current sector toolkits for the drive to 2015?

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 August 2011
    By Michelle Kooy and Dan Harris

    Do current water supply and sanitation sector interventions designed for the ‘drive to 2015’ take into account the ways in which politics matter in achieving the Millennium Development Goals for access to safe drinking water and sustainable sanitation? Is political analysis still a missing component to be integrated with sanitation planning processes and toolkits?

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  8. Famine in Somalia

    Event - Humanitarian crisis - 25 August 2011

    The UN has designated the situation in Somalia the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world.  An estimated 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. 

    ODI's work responding to the famine has been led by the Humanitarian Policy Group and has investigated:

    • why early warning didn’t translate into early action;
    • the effectiveness of the humanitarian response;
    • issues around access to water and food aid;
    • what can be learnt from previous famines in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere to inform the current response.
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  9. Famine in Somalia

    ODI On...

    The UN has designated the situation in Somalia the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world.  An estimated 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. 

    ODI's work responding to the famine has been led by the Humanitarian Policy Group and has investigated:

    • why early warning didn’t translate into early action;
    • the effectiveness of the humanitarian response;
    • issues around access to water and food aid;
    • what can be learnt from previous famines in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere to inform the current response.
    Find out more

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