This manual attempts to present a number of possible interventions that could be implemented in South Africa to improve the situation. Some have already been initiated by a variety of ICT players. What is missing, though, is a more coordinated approach to ensure maximum impact of these diverse, and laudable, e orts. They also need to be made far more visible to the women who will bene t from them.

Children and young people are commonly treated in the climate change and disasters litera- ture as victims of natural events requiring protection by adults. This article critiques that narrative, drawing on examples from the Philippines and El Salvador that explore how chil- dren’s groups have responded to such issues through child-centred initiatives. This highlights the importance of understanding children’s perception and communication of risks facing their lives and livelihoods, their potential as agents of change in preventing disasters and adapting to climate change, and the implications for the theory and practice of child partici- pation, particularly in developing countries.

This paper aims to present a broad overview of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in South Africa, based on publicly available secondary sources. Because of the nature of the information economy and the requirement for high-level human resources in this sector, the paper also presents an overview of the status quo of skills required to ensure that the ICT industry will flourish and grow. The paper also raises issues and concerns that require further research and investigation, and that will hopefully stimulate interest in areas that to date have not received much attention.

Smallholders have important roles to play in both the prevention of dangerous climate change by reducing net global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, and our global ability to adapt to climate change. However, smallholders have largely failed to benefit from international financial mechanisms established as a result of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Drawing on literature and interviews, this paper examines finance and risk-related obstacles hindering smallholders from participating in current carbon finance mechanisms. It also suggests a framework for identifying how to prioritise and aggregate smallholders to achieve mitigation at scale.

Climate change is expected to increase both the frequency as well as the intensity of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones in the Caribbean and north Atlantic. This report represents a preliminary attempt at formulating a comprehensive and inter-regional standard building code in the Caribbean. The code would incorporate knowledge of wind speeds of tropical cyclones in order to create stronger and safer buildings throughout the region.

The Cayman Islands' Climate Change Policy outlines consensus-based interventions to be implemented over the next 5 years that are required to address priority adverse impacts of climate change to be faced by these islands. Additionally, the climate change policy contains measures required to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This climate change policy recognises that the combined actions of responding to the inevitable impacts of a changing climate and reducing further the contributions to climate change are cost-effective and urgently needed in order to ensure low-carbon climate resilient development in the Cayman Islands.

Climate change is expected to increase both the frequency as well as the intensity of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones in the Caribbean and north Atlantic. This report represents a preliminary attempt at formulating a comprehensive and inter-regional standard building code in the Caribbean. The code would incorporate knowledge of wind speeds of tropical cyclones in order to create stronger and safer buildings throughout the region.