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Displaying 15 of about 78 resultsThe goal of BCPR’s presence in UNDP Regional Service Centers (RSCs) is to ensure substantive advice on crisis prevention and recovery (CPR) issues to all UNDP work streams. Specifically, the BCPR/RSC component provides substantive partnerships support and performs cross-practice integration and coordination functions strengthening BCPR support to UNDP C…
The goal of BCPR’s presence in UNDP Regional Service Centers (RSCs) is to ensure substantive advice on crisis prevention and recovery (CPR) issues to all UNDP work streams. Specifically, the BCPR/RSC component provides substantive partnerships support and performs cross-practice integration and coordination functions strengthening BCPR support to UNDP C…
Project summary
The recent earthquakes in West Java and West Sumatra re-confirmed Indonesia as one of the most natural disaster-prone countries in the world. They also surface some significant gaps in the implementation of the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) framework in spite of important investments made over the years by the government, donors, nation…
Background
The Asia-Pacific region encompasses large areas of high disaster risk. Hazards affecting the region include floods, drought, typhoons and cyclones, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis. The Pacific region has special risks due to the large number of small island states which are particularly vulnerable to typhoons and drought and…
The conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
Background
UNDP works closely with governments in high disaster-risk countries to build capacities at the national, sub-national and local levels for reducing disaster risk. A major role of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) is to support UNDP Country Offices in the formulation and implementation of programme and projects for disaster…
This document reports on a workshop addressing the problems and impacts of floods and aiming to provide more understandable and action-oriented information to policymakers in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka), in order to develop a regional road map…
This special section of the annual white paper on gender equality 2012 provides an analysis and proposal under the theme of disaster prevention and reconstruction from a gender equal society perspective. It addresses the need to improve and strengthen disaster prevention and mitigation measures in anticipation of large-scale events similar to the Great…
As the Haiti operation moves from rescue to reconstruction, what major challenges can we expect to emerge? Duncan Green discusses on the Oxfam blog.
The Haiti operation is moving rapidly from rescue to reconstruction. What major challenges can we expect to emerge? What sort of policies have delivered results after previous earthquakes? One of the best…
Port-au-Prince — In her second visit to Haiti after the devastating January 2010 earthquake United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark said she was impressed by the visible progress seen in the capital Port-au-Prince two years after the devastating earthquake that rocked the country killing 200,000 people.
“I saw a huge dif…
This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA). It represents a distillation of the wealth of experience that exists throughout the world on how to manage and reduce disaster risks. The Guide can help state…
GENEVA, 20 May 2013 - Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) challenges are becoming greater every year. It is well known and understood by all disciplines in disaster prevention that previously unidentified threats are emerging, changes in technology are rendering formerly state-of-the-art systems obsolete or less effective, and migration patterns are causing…
Introduction
This post sits within the Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation team (DRR AND CAA), in the Programme Policy and Quality (PPQ) department.
The team works to reduce risks and enhance the resilience of children and their communities in the face of disasters and climate change, across both emergency and development contexts.…
Job Type
Fixed term, Full time – 3 months
Location
Goroka, Papua New Guinea
Description
CARE is a leading international humanitarian aid organisation fighting global poverty, with a special focus on working with women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities.
CARE International in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is looking to fill the p…
Background
Under the direct guidance of the Pacific Centre Manager, the Programme Specialist (Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery) will provide strategic direction to the disaster portfolio under the Pacific Regional Crisis Prevention and Recovery Project 2008 - 2011, coordinating closely with regional stakeholders and M/COs to ensure UNDP Pacific Cen…