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The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource management through asset creation or improved agricultural practices (risk reduction), microinsurance (risk transfer), increased investment, livelihoods diversification, and microcredit (prudent risk taking) and savings (risk reserves).

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource management through asset creation or improved agricultural practices (risk reduction), microinsurance (risk transfer), increased investment, livelihoods diversification, and microcredit (prudent risk taking) and savings (risk reserves).

Risk finance can empower women with regard to climate resilience. This brochure presents success stories of women in Guatemala and Zambia showing how risk finance has changed their lives.

Risk finance is an important tool in support of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s mandate: Saving lives, Changing lives. This brochure presents Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s strategy and approach in Latin America and the Caribbean.

With the scale up of cash transfers in refugee settlements to improve dignity and impact benefits to the people we serve, there is a need to intensify financial literacy initiatives. Financial inclusion and financial literacy among refugee settlements and host communities is imperative as most development partners in Uganda are moving to cash transfer programming. Increasing the financial capability of refugees and refugee hosting communities and ensuring that they are better equipped to make sound financial decisions, as well as helping them effectively interact with financial service providers and achieve their financial goals, is why the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in Uganda came together to develop a financial education training toolkit customized to the needs of migrant populations in Uganda building on existing learning and resources developed thus far.

Bhutan is vulnerable to a range of natural disasters, including floods, earthquakes and landslides.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ is working closely with the Government of Bhutan to prepare for and respond to disasters and support families to improve their food security.

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The report presents the findings from the 2nd Steering Committee Meeting of the RBA/Canada resilience initiative which was held in Niger between the 16th to the 20th of September 2019.