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Climate Risk Profile: East Africa Regional cover
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Climate Risk Profile: East Africa Regional

This profile provides an overview of climate risks in East Africa, including how climate variability and change likely will impact the region’s crop production, livestock, water resources, human health, infrastructure and energy, and ecosystems.
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Climate Risk Profile: Zimbabwe

This profile provides an overview of climate risks in Zimbabwe, including how climate variability and change is likely to impact five key sectors in the country: agriculture, livestock, human health, water resources, and forestry.
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Shifting Burdens: Malaria risks in a hotter Africa

This policy brief highlights key findings from ATLAS’ technical report illustrating the changing risk profile of malaria transmission across sub-Saharan Africa and details recommendations and future opportunities to improve malaria programming.
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Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages

Rooted in discriminatory gender norms and laws and shrouded in impunity, gender-based violence (GBV) occurs in all societies as a means of control, subjugation and exploitation that further reinforces gender inequality.
A group of men and women smile while looking at something to the left of the camera.
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Editor’s Pick: Infrastructure for Resilience Tools and Resources on Climatelinks

Strong, resilient infrastructure can help countries better prepare for climate variability and change, such as more severe and frequent weather events or sea level rise. Basic infrastructure is failing, insufficient, or non-existent in many developing countries, and changes in climate can damage infrastructure across sectors from energy, health, education, and others.
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Beira, Mozambique from above, one year after Cyclone Idai.
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Reflections on Disaster Events on the One-Year Anniversary of Cyclone Idai

As USAID and the international community know, if infrastructure fails during a crisis, the implications on human lives are enormous. To ensure future floods and other extreme weather events don’t cause the level of damage and misery seen in the wake of Idai and Kenneth, there are two myths that we urgently need to dispel.
  • Michael Szönyi
Women pick tea leaves on a hillside.
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Top 5 Adaptation Community Meetings from ATLAS

Advancing the field of climate change adaptation requires insight from diverse perspectives, active learning, and creative partnerships. Since 2014, USAID’s Adaptation Community Meetings (ACMs) have served as a platform to share knowledge for climate adaptation and resilience and promote integrated programming.
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Working Together: The City’s Heat Team

This infographic summarizes the cross-departmental municipal collaboration that is needed to manage heat risks in urban settings, outlining the key stakeholders and their roles.
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Inside the Heatwave: What Cities Should Do

This infographic summarizes the steps cities should take before, during, and after a heatwave, and highlights the importance of communication, coordination, and collaboration at each stage.