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Displaying 60 of about 81 resultsPeople living in places affected by fragility and/or violent conflict are among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change. In these situations, a natural hazard – such as a flood or a drought – can quickly trigger disasters and exacerbate protracted crises. Individuals themselves cannot meaningfully be expected to adapt to climate change. What…
[...]Politically fragile or conflict-hit countries such as Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and a range of nations in Africa's Sahel often also feature on lists of countries most at risk from climate change. In many cases, their vulnerability to climate impacts - droughts, floods, extreme heat and crop failures - stems not just from…
This policy brief issued by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) urges for swift and united action to address the protracted crisis as a result of the 6 February 2023 earthquakes. Residents who survived the earthquake are left in extremely cold temperatures without drinking water, electricity, or fuel for heating, and are expos…
DescriptionConducting risk analysis during strategic planning exercises:expands humanitarian focus from acute and urgent needs to chronic vulnerabilities and exposure to future risks, stress, and shocks, andhelps integrate reduction of extreme vulnerability into planning to facilitate recovery, and therefore aims at preventing new and reducing existing…
This profile aims to explore the climate risks that the Republic of Yemen faces. Yemen is projected to experience more extreme heat and extreme precipitation events under current climate models. Water access, health and sanitation, rural agricultural livelihoods, and disruptions to infrastructure and economic activities are critical concerns stemming fr…
The 2023 Thematic Review on Climate Security and Peacebuilding, commissioned by the UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) in partnership with FAO, UNICEF, Climate Security Mechanism and the UK, and led by the UN University’s Centre for Policy Research, distils trends and lessons from climate-security and environmental peacebuilding programming supporte…
This thematic review, focused on climate-security projects approved by the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) between 2016 and 2021, offers an opportunity to survey climate-security or related environmental peacebuilding efforts across 33 countries, as developed and implemented by some 29 partners, including both UN entities and civil socie…
This study presents a statistical model using extensive large-N, cross-country data to address this research gap and analyse the conflict-disaster relationship. Disasters and armed conflicts often occur together, leading to severe consequences for affected populations. While qualitative investigations have explored how conflict can influence vulnerabili…
This document outlines UNDP’s approach to private sector recovery and development in crisis and post-crisis settings. It provides guidance to UNDP Country Offices on the design and implementation of market-based solutions within a recovery framework, to foster local private sector development. It addresses the trends, challenges and opportunities of wor…
This guidance note presents UNDP's updated approach to livelihoods and economic recovery programming in Fragile and Post-Crisis/Transition Settings (FACTS). Over the years, UNDP has contributed to strengthening the livelihoods of millions of people affected by conflict and natural disasters, as well as catalyze structural transformation towards more inc…
With the climate crisis generating an increasing threat to global peace and security, the Security Council must ramp up its efforts to protect the Organization’s peace operations around the world and lessen the risk of conflicts emanating from rising sea levels, droughts, floods and other climate-related events, briefers, ministers and delegates told th…
The next issue of the Liaison Journal assesses the complex role of climate change as it relates to economic, physical or societal impacts that substantially alter political stability, human security, or national security infrastructure. We seek to examine how governments, militaries, and nongovernmental organizations implement these considerations into…
Across Africa, adaptive social safety nets are on the rise. Building on traditional safety nets that provide cash assistance and other services to poor households on a regular basis, they respond to shocks – mostly via rapid cash payments to affected households. Adaptive safety nets have supported tens of millions of people across Africa durin…
In this report, the Overseas Development Institute proposes a set of priorities to: enhance humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus action, explore the use of systemic risk management within the HDP nexus, and address the neglected DRR–peacebuilding links within the HDP nexus, with systemic risk management as one of a number of entry points for…
Beirut - The deadly earthquake that struck southern Türkiye and the north of the Syrian Arab Republic on 6 February continues to have devastating consequences. In Syria alone, the United Nations estimates that up to 9 million persons have been affected, with at least 6000 deaths, and this number is increasing by the day. A new policy brief issued today…