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  • Avoiding a Water Crisis: What’s Next for Cape Town — and Beyond?

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    Friday Podcasts  //  April 20, 2018  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    Intense drought in South Africa’s Western Cape Province has led the world-renowned city of Cape Town to the brink of “Day Zero”—the date at which residents would be forced to collect strictly rationed water supplies from shared distribution taps. Water conservation efforts have so far prevented a massive water shutdown, but the city’s rapid population growth and reliance on surface water dams makes it particularly vulnerable to lower precipitation levels. 

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  • Taking Our Power Back: Women and Girls Are Key to Food Security During Conflict

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    On the Beat  //  April 13, 2018  //  By Saiyara Khan
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    “Gender equality and women’s empowerment [need to be] at the center of the fight against extreme poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and also in any efforts to build sustainable peace,” said Ilaria Sisto at a recent CSIS event on the critical role of women and girls in ensuring food and nutrition in times of conflict.

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  • Beyond Violence: Drought and Migration in Central America’s Northern Triangle

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 12, 2018  //  By Carrie Seay-Fleming
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    Starting in 2014, the number of migrants from Central America’s Northern Triangle—Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—surged, with border apprehensions increasing fivefold from 2010-2015. While apprehensions have declined from their peak, emigration from these countries has not necessarily slowed, and the conditions the migrants are seeking to escape have not changed. Experts blame the region’s widespread criminal violence for spurring migration. But the Northern Triangle countries also share similar ecology, staple crops, and vulnerability to climate events. While environmental and natural resource factors are just part of the complex picture, understanding how they intersect with other migration drivers is key to creating and implementing effective policy responses.

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  • Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Women and Climate Change Adaptation

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    On the Beat  //  April 10, 2018  //  By Ellie Anderson
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    According to a 2015 Georgetown University report on women and climate change, “the impacts of climate change – droughts, floods, extreme weather, increased incidence of disease, and growing food and water insecurity – disproportionately affect the world’s 1.3 billion poor, the majority of whom are women.”

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  • First Responders of Last Resort: South Asian Militaries Should Strengthen Climate Security Preparedness and Cooperation

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 9, 2018  //  By Tariq Waseem Ghazi & Rachel Fleishman
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    This post originally appeared on the Center for Climate and Security’s website.

    Last month, a major multinational military exercise launched in South and Southeast Asia. The Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific and aims to enhance regional coordination in areas such as medical readiness and preparedness for manmade and natural disasters. At its center is the hospital ship USNS Mercy, with an international team of civilian and military specialists seeking to build response capacity in one of the most disaster-prone regions of the world.

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  • A More Just Migration: Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Displacement

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    From the Wilson Center  //  April 3, 2018  //  By Saiyara Khan
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    “It is often expected that women care more, and therefore women are going to volunteer, and be the saviors” in times of crisis, said Eleanor Blomstrom, the Program Director and Head of Office for the Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO), at a Wilson Center event on climate displacement and the changing role of women. A panel of experts discussed the impacts of climate change that not only force women to move, but also put them disproportionately at risk.  By integrating gender dimensions of climate-related displacement into research, policy, and programs, we can gain a better understanding of the challenges that women face and support women’s efforts to be changemakers for their communities as they adapt to climate threats. “All issues are women’s issues,” said Blomstrom.

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  • The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Photos Show Bangladesh Camps Are Vulnerable to Impending Monsoons

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    Eye On  //  Guest Contributor  //  March 28, 2018  //  By Saleh Ahmed

    In late 2017, I visited the several Rohingya refugee camps (Leda, Mainner Ghona, & Kutupalong-Balukhali Makeshift Settlements) in Ukhia Upazila (Cox’s Bazar District), Bangladesh. These camps are home to more than a million refugees escaping ethnic violence in Myanmar.

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  • Bioshields: Old Tools for a New Climate

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 27, 2018  //  By Skye Niles
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    Natural bioshields—wetlands, forests, and urban green spaces—are critical tools for reducing the impacts of disasters on vulnerable communities. Between 1994 and 2014, nearly 7,000 natural disasters occurred worldwide, causing an average of almost 68,000 deaths each year. Climate change, growing populations, and widening economic inequality are all expected to increase the impacts of disasters. Bioshields—nature’s own solutions to natural hazards—can help protect people from these dangerous floods, storms, and heat waves.

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