Guyana
- Capital:
Georgetown - Population:
748486 - Size:
214970.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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Browse all the latest print documents from the British Library of Development Studies...
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Professional Development Strategy for Teachers in Guyana
- N. Butcher / Commonwealth of Learning, 2012
- The ICT Professional Development Strategy for Teachers in Guyana could provide a quick and cost-effective way to enhance and overhaul existing teacher programmes in environments with few resources, including human resources. ICT are c...
- The Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
- Ministry of the Environment, Norway, 2012
- Through its international Climate and Forest Initiative, the Norwegian government aims at supporting efforts to slow, halt and eventually reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation in developin...
- Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010, Country Report: Guyana
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- This report is one of five national-level studies conducted as part of the Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative. It aims to document the baseline on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation an...
- Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Executive Summaries from Country Reports
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- The primary objective of the Norwegian Government’s climate policy is to help establish a global, binding, long-term post-2012 regime that will ensure cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions sufficient to limit global temperature...
- Vulnerability and capacity assessment: impacts of climate change on Guyana's agriculture sector
- Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2009
- The bulk of Guyana's agricultural activity occurs on the narrow coastal plain which is highly susceptible to flooding as it is mostly below or at sea level. Compounding this dilemma is the fact that climate change is predict...
- UNDP climate change country profile: Guyana
- C. McSweeny; M. New; G. Lizcano / United Nations Development Programme, 2008
- A profile of the nation of Guyana compiled for the UNDP using the PRECIS downscaling software. The article discusses Guyana's vulnerability to the El Nino and La Nina phenomena in the face of recent and predicted climate change p...
- National adaptation strategy to address climate change in the agricultural sector of Guyana: strategy and action plan
- Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, 2009
- This study, commissioned by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) under the Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) project, set out to identify and understand the extent and depth to which climate change is ...
- Case study on the impact of climate change on the agriculture of an indigenous community in Guyana
- P. Bynoe / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- Much like developing countries, indigenous peoples the world over are among the least responsible for climate change, yet they are expected to be some of those most blighted by its effects. This case study from Guyana focuses on Ameri...
- Guyana's initial national communication to the UNFCCC
- UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action, 2002
- This first national communication contains an overview of the Guyana. This national communication is in fulfilment of the Guyana's obligation to submit such a report under the agreement signed with the UNFCCC. The information includes...
- A low carbon development strategy: transforming Guyana's economy while combating climate change
- 2010
- This report coming from the office of the President of Guyana outlines the efforts of the Guyanese government at harnessing the natural resources of the country in conjunction with international partnerships in order to create carbon ...
- University of Guyana
- Teaching and research university in Guyana
- Institute of Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana (IDS-UG)
- Multidisciplinary research centre focussing on the problems of development in Guyana and the Caribbean
- Guyana Chronicle
- Daily national newspaper from Guyana.
- Caribbean Community Secretariat (Caricom)
- Organisation promoting cooperation on economics, foreign policy and common services within the Caribbean region. WWW site has full text of treaties produced by CARICOM, publications list, and press releases.
