This programme evaluation report describes the processes of the 2009 Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) programme as a community-driven approach, including partner training in methodology, engagement in community mobilisation, community hazard mapping, and community designed plans to reduce their disaster risks.

As bw goes to press, the last day of the copenhagen climate summit still has some way to go. However, there is little hope for a treaty. Even the gathering of about 110 heads of government is not expected to break up the scrum in which their climate negotiators have been locked for 10 days.

CARE and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) collaborated to pilot the use of an innovative tool for participatory analysis of changing rainfall patterns.

Maldives hosted a high-level climate change summit focusing on

The broad picture of immunisation in Africa is one of excellent progress and enthusiastic energy, with amazing advances having been made since the turn of the century. There has been a large drop in mortality due to measles, and about a third of countries now use a three dose regimen of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis triple vaccine (DTP3), which provides coverage of at least 80% in all districts.

Addis Ababa: Ethiopia appealed on Thursday for 159,410 tons of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country

Governments are at their wits

food security Ethiopia defends land grab Ethiopia, where 20 per cent of the people are in urgent need of food aid, defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares (ha) cultivable land to foreign companies.

International investors have recently shown a fast-growing interest in land in developing countries. The IIED, the FAO and IFAD drew attention to the phenomenon of large-scale real estate purchases. In this article, two of the study's authors bemoan that international media coverage has since emphasised the risks involved-without much regard for opprtunities.

Emami Biotech, a part of the Rs 2,000-crore Emami Group, will invest Rs 400 crore in a plantation project over five years in Oromia in Ethiopia. The company will engage in plantation of biofuel crops (jatropha) and other edible and non-edible oil seeds on 100,000 acres allotted to Emami Biotech by the Oromia Investment Commission.

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