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Displaying 14 of about 14 resultsThis report presents the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) as part of the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF), a Multi-donor Trust Fund designed to pilot and demonstrate ways to mainstream climate vulnerability and resilience into national development policies and plans, consistent with poverty reduction and sustainable development goals. Its key tar…
This policy brief provides responses to key practical questions posed by climate negotiators about how to move from words to action in linking disaster risk reduction (DRR) and insurance for adaptation, costs and benefits, institutional arrangements, data availability, and the roles of the public and private sector. Illustrated by current, and in some c…
28 July 2010, Assignment No. AN2009/387/01:
The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) conducted an audit of the governance and organizational structure of the inter-agency secretariat to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). The overall objective of the audit was to determine whether the g…
This report presents the views of a range of businesses, from major multinationals to local enterprises, on adaptation to climate change. It asserts that the role of business is not just preparing its own assets and operations for anticipated climate change, but also providing know how, solutions and resources to the adaptation challenge, ranging from c…
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Este documento está relacionado con el mejoramiento de la calidad de información sobre clima y tiempo, la identificación y puesta en marcha del sistema multimodal para la difusión de información climática, y los mecanismos implementados para lograr alianzas estratégicas con diversas instituciones, actores locales y organizaciones del secto…
This publication is a collection of contributions from presentations given at the International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2008 aimed at underlining the importance of strong links between the risk management community and the public and private sectors. The scope of this book is both to investigate the linkage between disaster risk reductio…
This policy brief responds to recent signals from large institutional investors and suggests that there is potential for raising new finance specifically for adaptation, provided the right investment products are available. It looks at various ways in which private finance can support adaptation actions, particularly through lending, and recommends acti…
Executive Order No. 888, signed by President of the Philippines, Ms Gloria Macapagala Arroyo, adopts the Strategic National Action Plan (SNAP) on Disaster Risk Reduction 2009-19 and its 18 priority programmes/projects, including:
The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Act; Multi-stakeholder Dialogues on Disaster Risk Reduction; Institutionalization of Disa…
Seventh African Development Forum (ADF), acting on climate change for sustainable development in Africa, issue paper #11:
This paper presents the main ethos of the UNFCCC Private Sector Initiative, which calls for effective engagement in the wider adaptation community, as a means to support mitigation and adaptation to climate change in a coherent and…
This publication reviews disaster incidents in the Western Cape of South Africa and identifies trends between 2003 and 2008. It is the first of its kind detailing disaster events and critical risk reduction issues for a wide range of public sector, emergency services and development planning professionals and practitioners of the Western Cape, as one of…
This report elaborates a new framework for the engagement of the Engineering & Construction industry sector during the phases of relief, recovery and prevention as a result of 'natural disasters'. It builds upon the incidence of disasters on the rise as a result of climate change, and the changing attitudes of the international humanitarian communit…
Interim progress report:
This report summarizes the implementation progress since the endorsement of the Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change which aims at achieving the twin objectives of: (i) effectively supporting sustainable development and poverty reduction in developing countries as climate risks and climate-related economic opp…
This draft summary seeks to provide a brief introduction of disaster risk reduction (DRR) to industry. It gathers material to inform, motivate and direct collaboration between the private sector and the United Nations as part of the development of an online platform.
It responds to the following questions: (i) what are the foundational reasons for DRR…
This handbook provides disaster managers, local and municipal and community planners, as well as other stakeholders in the tourism sector with a practical guidance on how to better prepare for disasters in coastal destinations. It has the following objectives: (i) increase the operational capacity of local communities in coastal tourism destinations to…