This report argues that taking a life cycle approach and securing good nutritional status for women across the life course will in the long term reduce child underweight and stunting. It argues that around 30% of all women aged 15 to 49 years are thought to be anaemic, and the highest proportions of these anaemic women live in Africa and South East Asia. The prevalence of anaemia in adolescent girls is thought to be even higher.

This report evaluate the state of preparedness for climate change adaptation in southern Africa. It is aimed at supporting the demands of state and non-state southern African actors for climate change adaptation finance and the efficient administration of such funds. The report details the findings of a desk study evaluating the state of knowledge on climate change vulnerability and adaptation preparedness in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe currently has no specific policy responseto climate change.

Despite the existence of the Environment Management Act of 2002, Zimbabwe neither has a climate change policy, climate change strategy nor national adaptation strategy. Instead, there is an array of uncoordinated programmes and activities, and pieces of legislation on climate change. With reference to the later, there are several pieces of legislation that directly and indirectly bears on climate change. In combination, the legislation and policies constitute what canbe best described as Zimbabwe’s intended national policy on climate change.

This paper presents a review of literature and recently adopted laws that are linked to the Hyogo Framework goals. It examines how disaster management legislations may promote tangible results at the community level and why it sometimes fails to do so.The report notes that more specific attention to community-level risk reduction is slowly making its way into disaster management laws in various parts of the world.

In 2009 a Voices from the Front Line (VFL) study gathered views on progress in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) on risk reduction activity at the local level across 48 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Part of the 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study: a Review of Climate Change Legislation in 99 Countries.

Providing clean water and sanitation in developing countries involves more than clean water supply, and wastewater disposal, it may best be seen as part of the move towards water security: building resilience to ‘water related hazards’ and ensuring there is sufficient water of sufficient quality for productive sectors as well as ecosystems. The appropriate interventions may include large or small-scale infrastructure; policy, legislation and institutional restructuring; and, behavioural change through support for awareness raising and education initiatives.

Botswana is water scarce, with endemic drought and varied rainfall. In order to meet increases in water demand efficiently and sustainably, greater policy coherence and implementation is needed. The government acknowledges the principles of integrated water resources management (IWRM), but this is largely rhetorical. Water management is still centralised and stakeholder participation is often non-existent.

Based on FAO's Plan of Action for Women in Development (1996-2001) this document describes FAO's conceptual framework for analysing the implications of gender in sustainable agriculture and rural development, and outlines its strategies and actions aimed at addressing these issues.

Climate change presents the world with a daunting problem. Responding to this problem will require pioneering efforts in science, politics, pollution control, forest land management and law. This document examines the development of international law on climate change and discusses what issues national and subnational legislative bodies may have to consider regarding climate change mitigation and forests.The paper outlines provisions relevant to forests in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Kyoto Protocol.