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The chapter starts broadly with climate change and its impact on LDCs, SIDSs and developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. It shows climate change as the single most devastating threat facing humanity, potentially hindering the globe from achieving Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses SIDS and LDC’s challenges in developing their institutional capacity to respond to climate change. It also provides insights into relevant capacity development models and practices in institutions that participated in the case studies selected to be included in this book.
The chapter discusses the book’s purpose, which is to provide insights into the unique contributions of institutions to building the capacities (human) of institutions to adapt to climate change and other development calamities. The book explores relevant development models, conceptual frameworks and strategic programmes from the past as a basis for developing a new conceptual framework, extracting lessons learned and best practices and making recommendations for the future.
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Simmons, A., Simmons, AA. (2023). Introduction. In: Building Institutions for Resilience. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28881-4_1
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