Integrated workshop for Asia on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction, environmental sustainability and climate change

Background

Climate change, environmental degradation, and disasters have direct impacts on the livelihoods of people. To address linkages between these three areas and mainstream them in country programming, the UN Development Group Task Team on Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change and Rio+20, in collaboration with CADRI, UNDP, UNEP, UNISDR, UNITAR and UNSSC, organizes a regional workshop for Asia from 25-29 July 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop brings together members of UN Country Teams who are embarking on the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) roll-out process. It is the third in a serious of three regional workshops scheduled in 2011 which also cover the African and Arab regions, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean.

Event Objectives

Explore linkages between the areas of disaster risk reduction, environmental sustainability and climate change and mainstream them in country programming.

Content and structure

The content of the workshop is based on three interrelated UNDG guidance notes:

“Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into the CCA and UNDAF” (2009);
“Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability in Country Analysis and the UNDAF” (2009); and
“Integrating Climate Change Considerations in the Country Analysis and the UNDAF” (2010).

The workshop is structured along the UNDAF process: from preparing a road map, over country analysis and strategic planning, to monitoring and evaluation.

Methodology

The workshop focuses on experience-sharing among participants and includes a large number of group exercises. During hands-on ‘Country Clinics’, UNCT representatives present opportunities and challenges in their UNDAF development processes and gather feedback and advice from their peers.