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South African Broadcasting Commission (SABC) Journalists covering the Elephant Summit next to the Chobe River in Botswana, Kasane.
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Southern Africa: USAID, SADC Address Water Challenges

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on a five-year project to address water challenges facing communities in the Limpopo River Basin and Okavango River Basin.
  • USAID Resilient Waters
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Governance of Infrastructure for Resilience

Drawing on case studies and stakeholder engagement with infrastructure decision makers and practitioners around the globe, this white paper explores the current key challenges and barriers to implementing governance of infrastructure for resilience, and the opportunities available for positive change.
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Article Collection: Adaptive Pathways for Resilient Infrastructure

This special issue seeks to identify gaps and highlight solutions related to the uptake and implementation of resilient infrastructure systems that work towards long-term sustainability in the face of disasters and climate change. This is a collection of evidence-based science, case-studies, and literature reviews.
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Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (DRI) Lexicon

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) has developed a Lexicon on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (DRI) to foster a shared conceptual understanding of infrastructure-related terms and phrases.
Women walking along a dirt path with the city skyline in the background.
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Strengthening the Resilience of Cities is Essential, and Smart

USAID is pleased to announce the release of new technical guidance for developing and implementing activities that strengthen the resilience of cities and urban communities. The new guidance provides evidence-based, practical recommendations for programming across a variety of sectors in urban settings.
  • Urbanlinks
A worker in Nairobi collects waste from a toilet developed by the startup Sanergy. The waste will later be converted to fertilizer and bio-gas.
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How Improved Sanitation Can Mitigate Climate Change

When considering urban sources of greenhouse gas emissions, sanitation is not usually the first sector that comes to mind. Transportation, sure. Electricity generation, certainly. But not waste treatment. And yet, one study showed that up to half of the greenhouse gas emissions emitted from Kampala, Uganda could be traced to sanitation.
  • Christine Chumbler
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Seeding a Sustainable Tomorrow: Climate-Smart Homestead Gardening for Improved Nutrition

In Bangladesh’s Khulna District, Sahena Khatun, her husband and 15-year-old son had long survived on just her husband's farming income, the equivalent of $70 a month. Her own attempts to bolster her family’s income and nutrition through traditional farming had proved futile due to substandard inputs and lack of good agricultural practices.
  • Agrilinks