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Founded in 1961, PCI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting community health and integrated development worldwide. PCI is headquartered in San Diego, CA, and currently operates in 16 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Sectoral focus areas include health and nutrition; water and sanitation; food and l…
Scope of work
The assignment aims to reinforce climate change-gender analysis and capacities of the UN support efforts to Viet Nam, specifically regarding community based climate change adaptation linked to disaster risk management. The aim will be achieved by additional actions linked to two already planned undertakings, as follows:
- Facilitating a…
Practical Action is currently seeking to recruit consultants with experience in the following areas:
Livelihoods & Making Markets Work for the Poor – M4P
- Analysis and design of frameworks for strategic improvement of key markets;
- participatory market chain analysis;
- market mapping;
- markets and sustainability;
- value chain performa…
CARE International is a leading development and humanitarian charity supporting the poorest communities in 84 countries around the world. CARE International UK (CIUK) is leading a consortium composed of Tree Aid, SNV and RBM that has developed a BRACED Programme titled ‘Building Resilience Without Borders in the Sahel (BRWB)’. BRWB focuses on support fo…
Work with a primary school in the Whitesands area of Vanuatu to develop community awareness materials that will increase local disaster preparedness. You will help the community to prepare for diverse threats, ranging from active volcanoes to droughts to severe storms.
This is a volunteer assignment under the Australian Volunteers for International Dev…
Funded by GEF/LDCF Resources
Implementing Agency of GEF UNDP
GEF Focal Point and Lead Implementing Agency Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment
Executing Agency Samoa Tourism Authority
The Technical Assistant (TA) will provide technical input and strategic guidance to the activities required of the project in this Inception Phase concluding w…
Position Description
The Project Officer shall liaise with government agencies, local authorities and communities, and other partners for implementing RIMES activities in Myanmar’s Dry Zone; contribute to forecast information user need assessments; assist in facilitating participatory processes for evaluating vulnerabilities and risks to various hazard…
Background
Due to its location, topography, and vulnerability to cyclic climatic events (ENSO oscillations), Timor-Leste faces high levels of risks associated with natural hazards. Every year, the country suffers from localized events including, floods, landslides and strong winds. Vulnerable communities have borne the impacts of such natural hazards,…
Background
UNCDF is supporting an expanding portfolio of programmes in Asia that provide capital resources to local governance processes to enable them to meet the challenges of poverty reduction, the Millennium Development Goals, and Climate Change. These programmes promote local level public financial management and decentralized governance responses…
Purpose:
• The Field Officer will be responsible for supporting the Project Officer in the implementation and reporting on activities of the project.
• The Field Officer will support the Jamaica Red Cross to develop, implement, monitor and report on the Project Improving Climate Change Resilience of Caribbean Communities. This project aims…
The Participatory Assessment of Climate and Disaster Risks (PACDR) tool consists of seven modules that build upon each other to enable users to systematically integrate the consideration of climate and disaster risks into community planning and development.
The tool is designed to be self-explanatory to the degree that first- time users with comm…
This article examines the role of local knowledge in disaster risk reduction and management for communities that are facing a particular type of hazard for the first time. Climate change is contributing to shifts in the magnitude and scale of hazards, and the emergence of risks in areas where they were previously unknown. In south-east Iceland, a fractu…
This document provides a quick overview of a project aimed at generating and using quantified data to better understand and prepare for natural hazard risks along the corridors, and to support capacity building in Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM). The government of Timor-Leste, recognizing the need for disaster p…
The report highlights good practice in building resilience to disasters and climate change impacts across the ASEAN, particularly at the community level, in urban areas and within the agricultural sector. It also provides examples of building resilience with a focus on safe schools, women's economic empowerment and elderly people. The case studies are d…
This brief summarises work conducted by an alliance of government and non-government organisations to increase and channel the flow of international climate adaptation financing to sub-national governments and local communities in East and West Africa. Early results demonstrate the benefits that community-led prioritisation and budgeting for climate res…