Project Description: The project shall compile currently available climate data and climate change projections in Asia and the Pacific, and analyze the gap between currently available information and the needs for project design. Key activities are: desktop review of currently available climate data and climate change projections in Asia and the Pacific region; assessment of […]

Project Description: The project aims to enhance understanding, relevance, and use of climate information for food security-related planning, disaster preparedness, and mitigation in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar Key activities include pre-season monsoon forums, one each in Cambodia and Lao PDR; media trainings in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar to enhance reporting of seasonal climate […]

The project aims to enhance the relevance of climate information and forecasts for better-informed decision-making and preparedness to climate hazards and disasters. Key activities include conducting 3 post-season monsoon forums, one each in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar; and 3-month intensive training on climate forecasting and risk management for 2 core forecasters from Cambodia

The project aims to establish Monsoon Forums to enhance utility of seasonal climate forecasts, and to identify, through a participatory process, climate change issues affecting agriculture, food security, and livelihoods in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar. Key activities include landscaping of institutions and their decision and policy frameworks; identification of opportunities for climate risk management; […]

Armenia Ongoing Projects Completed Projects Climate Risk Management Technical Assistance Support Project Bangladesh Ongoing Projects Enhancing early warning system for community-based response in Bangladesh under SHOUHARDO- II Piloting of Bay of Bengal cyclones and depression tracks and landfall for enhanced accuracy and improved lead time for disaster risk reduction in Nobo Jibon Program areas, Bangladesh […]

The project aims to define enabling conditions for practical integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia. Key activities are the review of institutional mechanisms for, and policies, projects, and research on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA); and analysis of enabling conditions for DRR and CCA integration.

The project aims to develop high-resolution regional climate model for the Maldives through statistical and dynamic downscaling of Global Climate Models (GCMs) to provide projections for use in national and local planning. The project aimed for availability of downscaled climate change projections for the Maldives, and capacity within climate-sensitive sectors on use of downscaled projections […]

The project aims to develop probabilistic seismic hazard and risk maps for Rangpur, Dinajpur, Mymensingh, Tangail, Bogra, and Rajshahi. The project aimed to assess seismic hazard and risks in 6 cities in Bangladesh, under the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme Phase II. Key activities included development of probabilistic seismic hazard maps for Rangpur, Dinajpur, Mymensingh, Tangail, […]

The project aims to facilitate the integration of tsunami warning into national early warning systems through the establishment, capacity building, and institutionalization of early warning national forums with participation of mass-based organization. The project further focussed on capacity building of field-level National Red Cross Society in forecast translation. Furthermore, RIMES conducted system audits to ensure functionality […]

The project aimed to build capacities of UNDP, UN, regional agency personnel, and partner agencies in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste on analyzing risks related to climate variability and change, and identify risk management solutions, to inform country climate risk management and climate change adaptation program development. Key activities: […]

The project aims to improve the National Red Cross Society headquarters‚ preparedness for emergency response through the use of early warning information in guiding preparedness activities. Key activities include training of National Red Cross Society headquarter personnel on early warning information interpretation, translation, communication, and application; enhancement of existing DM/ CBDM training curriculum; and documentation […]

The project aimed to assist the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)‚Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) and the Bureau for Development Policy‚Energy and Environment Group (BDP/EEG) in identifying, through stakeholder approach, science-informed priority climate risk management and climate change adaptation actions in Armenia, Ecuador, Indonesia, and Mozambique, to guide UNDP programming in these countries. […]