Publication: Environment and Natural Resources Supplementary Guidance Note for Risk and Resilience Assessments
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2023-04-20
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2023-04-20
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This supplementary guidance note is based on the report, Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resource Management as a Pathway to Peace (2022), which was funded by the State and Peacebuilding Fund. This document is intended to encapsulate the key ideas to support Risk and Resilience Assessment (RRA) teams to collect knowledge on and deepen and nuance the treatment of the environment and natural resources in RRAs. Additional examples and analyses are available in the original report.
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“World Bank. 2023. Environment and Natural Resources Supplementary Guidance Note for Risk and Resilience Assessments. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39719 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”
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