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The plan also involved community outreach initiatives, putting an early warning system in place that provides a seven-day advance forecast about high temperatures and impending heat waves, and capacity-building of health-case professionals to treat people with heat-related complications.<ref name=langa >[http://www.pressreader.com/india/the-hindu/20170402/283072709125329 How Ahmedabad beat the heat], Mahesh Langa, The Hindu, access date 2 May 2017</ref> According to ''[[The Hindu]]'', the city's Heat Action Plan, unveiled in 2013, has brought down heatwave-linked deaths by up to 25%.<ref name=langa />
Women and young people at the forefront of [[climate change adaptation|climate adaptation]] action. The Ahmedabad heat wave project shows that women hawkers and street vendors are natural and easy brokers of learning around how to deal with heat wave. They pick up measures to respond as well as pass on the message to other women and children in the city.<ref>[http://reliefweb.int/report/india/feature-severe-heat-wave-grips-india-authorities-can-draw-insights-ahmedabad-experience Severe heat wave grips India – Authorities can draw on insights from Ahmedabad experience, ReliefWeb, access date 2 May 2017]</ref>
=== Enhancing upstream-downstream cooperation and equitable water access in Nepal ===
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