Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Country/Region "Afghanistan"
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25 Years of Crisis Response
(2022-03)UNEP is working around the world to respond to natural disasters, industrial accidents, and human-induced crises. Since 1994, UNEP, through its Disasters and Conflicts Branch, has supported more than 50 crisis-affected ... -
A guide to Afghanistan's 2007 environmental law
(2008)The purpose of this brochure is to give the Afghan people, and other interested persons, a basic overview as to why and how the Law was developed, and the implications of the Law for the ordinary person and the government. ... -
Afghanistan Vulnerability and Adaptation Technical Assessment Report
(2020-11)Afghanistan is one of the least developed and most vulnerable countries to climate change. The high dependence of its population on agricultural livelihoods, fragile environment, poor socio economic development, high ... -
Afghanistan Wakhan Mission: Technical report
(2003)The mission was commissioned by the United National Environmental Programme (UNEP), as one of five missions visiting a selection of environmentally important locations in Afghanistan with purpose of making an initial ... -
Afghanistan's Environment 2008
(2008)This report provides readers with an overview of the key environmental issues, factors and drivers of environmental change in Afghanistan, and highlights the latest achievements and prospects ahead. -
Afghanistan's Environmental Recovery: A Post-conflict Plan for People and their Natural Resources
(2006)As Afghanistan moves forward, the Government has placed security, good governance, and self-sustainability at the top of its reconstruction agenda. To achieve these goals, investment in rebuilding human capital and ... -
Afghanistan: Climate Change Science Perspectives
(2016)Afghanistan’s variety of different climates has a large natural variability; however, over recent decades people are beginning to perceive climatological changes. There are very few scientific studies on climate change in ... -
Afghanistan’s National Inventory Report (NIR) 2019: Submission Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
(2019)The National Inventory Report (NIR) 2019 contains complete information and provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the trend and the methodologies applied in the greenhouse gas inventory for the gases carbon ... -
Biodiversity Profile of Afghanistan: An Output of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environment Management (NCSA) for Afghanistan
(2008)The intent of this report, which was an output of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environment Management (NCSA) project implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is to provide ... -
Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Climate Change in Afghanistan (LDCF) - Baseline Assessment Report
(2014-09)This report presents the baseline conditions for the LDCF project, including specific baselines values for all project outcome and output level indicators. Data for this baseline research was collected from February – ... -
Building Afghanistan’s Resilience: Natural Hazards, Climate Change, and Humanitarian Needs - A paper for the 2016 Brussels Conference on Afghanistan
(2016)Unless urgent action is taken to build the resilience of Afghanistan’s households, communities, and environment, much of the country’s development gains over the past 15 years could be at risk. -
Building Resilience, Integrating Gender: Women, Natural Resources and Climate Change in Afghanistan
(2017)This paper’s goals are twofold. First is to shine greater light on the valuable contributions that women play in the management of natural resources and maintaining healthy ecosystems in Afghanistan. Second is to expand ... -
Capacity Building and Institutional development Programme for Environmental Management in Afghanistan: Progress report: January-December 2007
(2008)Following the comprehensive progress reports for 2004, 2005 and 2006, this report outlines the progress that was made from January to December 2007 within the nine components of the programme as outlined in the original ... -
A Case Study on Climate Change Mitigation Options for Afghanistan
(2018)UNEP’s Crisis Management Branch, established in 1999 and based in Geneva, provides environmental assistance to post-conflict countries by, among other things, providing capacity building and technical assistance for ... -
Climate Change and Governance in Afghanistan
(National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA), 2015)This report provides a broad overview of the landscape of climate change governance in Afghanistan in order to identify past achievements and current and future entry points for the further mainstreaming of climate change ... -
Climate Change in Afghanistan: What Does It Mean for Rural Livelihoods and Food Security?
(2016-11)In this report, we show how drought and flood risks have changed over the past thirty years, and what impact this has had on rural livelihoods and food security in the country. The aim is to inform national-level prioritization ... -
Community-based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) Toolkit: The Afghanistan Resilience Consortium’s Guide to Building Community-based Resilience to Natural Hazards and Climate Change in Afghanistan
(Afghanistan Resilience Consortium, 2017)The overall objective of the community-based disaster preparedness (CBDP) toolkit is to identify the short-, medium- and long-term actions that can be taken with a community in order to address the underlying vulnerabilities ... -
Current State of Early Warning System in Afghanistan - An Outlook of the Flood Early Warning System
(2020-11)This report provides a broad overview of the landscape of Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the climate-induced natural hazard with a specific focus on flood in Afghanistan, in order to identify past achievements and current ... -
Digital Infrastructure Improvements for Connectivity and Resilience in Afghanistan - Case Study
(2021)Infrastructure planning and development should be based on a good understanding of infrastructure service needs and informed by the diverse options available to meet those needs. This includes understanding and managing ... -
Environment and Humanitarian Action Country Study: Afghanistan
(Joint United Nations Environment Programme / United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Environment Unit, 2016)The Afghanistan Environment and Humanitarian Action (EHA) country-level study is one in a series of studies undertaken by the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit (JEU) in 2015 that assesses the extent to which environmental ...
