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The EU is increasingly addressing, through its development cooperation, the challenges posed by fragility and crisis. This trend is reflected not only in terms of very substantial funding, but also in the focus of recent EU development policies.

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Social Protection Across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. A Game Changer in Supporting People Through Crises

Working with social protection in countries in crisis, vulnerable to crises and countries impacted by crises presents many challenges. This e-learning course provides concrete and practical guidance on what the instrument can deliver as an effective short- and long-term response.

Duration: 4 h

2017 Global Report on Food Security Crises

This Global Report aims to enhance coordination and decision making through a neutral analysis that informs programming and implementation. The key objective and strength of the report is to establish a consultative and consensus-based process to compile food insecurity analyses from around the world into a global public product.

Duration: 40 m

Assessing risks and impacts from extreme events/natural hazards on the agriculture sector

In the context of increasing climate-related disasters worldwide, this webinar focuses on the adequate disaster risk reduction and management efforts within and across sectors, anchored in the context-specific needs of local livelihoods systems. The webinar covers Agriculture Stress Index System and recent data on damage and loss from disasters on agriculture and food security.

Duration: 1 h 18 m

Benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture

This webinar covers the benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture, a case study from Uganda on how the agricultural practices for disaster risk reduction were implemented and monitored at farm level and perspective from the Philippines on the challenges and opportunities to upscale the agriculture good practices for disaster risk reduction at national level.

Duration: 70 m

Building resilience to natural hazards and climate-related disasters in the Caribbean

The webinar aims to enhance awareness on Agriculture Disaster Risk Reduction through Preparedness, Early warning and Early Action and Emergency Response in the LAC region; discuss approaches on disaster risk management in agriculture, with specific focus on the LAC region and exchange experiences in implementing preparedness, early action, and emergency response initiatives.

Duration: 80 m

Caisses de resilience

The webinar presents the basic concepts of the 'Caisses de résilience' and highlights the adaptability of this approach in order to tailor resilience-building to varying contexts and challenges, from protracted crisis to natural hazards. It gives concrete examples of implementation and scaling-up in a number of African countries, from Uganda to Central African Republic, Liberia, Malawi, Mali and Chad, and recently also in Burundi, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Democratic Republic of Congo. The session also illustrates how the approach was adapted as early as 2000 in Honduras and Guatemala to address the natural hazards context of the Dry Coridor area in Central America with an initiative called 'Community Contingency Funds' (CCFs).

Duration: 40 m

Also available in Français

Confronting drought in Africa's drylands: opportunities for enhancing resilience

The webinar analyses current and future challenges to reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa and identifies promising interventions and strategies that can enhance the resilience of the millions of households that depend on traditional livelihood strategies, such as livestock-keeping and farming as well as putting in place safety nets.

Duration: 70 m

Enhancing the resilience of rural men and women through community mobilization

This webinar gives an overview of the implementation of the Dimitra Clubs approach, highlights its results and impact on the resilience of rural men and women’s livelihoods, and discusses with the audience on its replicability and potential for upscaling.

Duration: 80 m

EU Conflict Sensitivity

This online course will introduce participants to the concept of conflict sensitivity, and provide them with an opportunity to practice the integration of conflict sensitivity into EU action.

Duration: 2.5 hours

Also available in: Français

EU Staff Handbook for Operating in Situations of Conflict and Fragility

This is a handbook written by staff. It recounts staff experience as told in the first person and documented in evaluations. As such, it seeks to reap the benefits of the EU's rich experience in situations of conflict and fragility.

Tools and Methods Series, Reference Document No 17

Version June, 2015

FAO and Cash+: How to maximize the impacts of cash transfers

The webinar aims at promoting FAO’s approach, evidence and work on Cash+, based on the recent policy brief on Cash+; enabling cross-country and cross-regional knowledge exchange on FAO’s Cash+ interventions, presenting practical examples in Somalia, Kyrgyzstan and Lesotho and contributing to strengthening internal and external collaboration and partnerships.

Duration: 85 m

FAO Early Warning Early Action: What's new?

This webinar is the first event of a mini-series on Forecast-based Financing (FbF). It presents the latest developments in FAO's Early Warning Early Action work.

Duration: 75 m