Programs Donors: UNDP

The project aimed to strengthen institutional arrangements and related capacities of Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, sectoral agencies, local government institutions, CSOs, and communities in managing climate-related risks through improved understanding of climate risks in project locations, enhancing the formulation of weather/ climate forecast and related information, including information dissemination. The project contributes to…

The project aimed to assess the potential exposure of local communities to the effects of projected 2017 El Nino, to form basis for planning of immediate mitigation and response preparedness actions. Key activities included: modeling of possible scenarios for 2017 El Nino, and assessment of likely associated biophysical impacts, limpacted population and geographical distribution, and…

The project aimed to climate-proof UNDP’s Area Based Development Programme in Uzbekistan. Key activities included review of vulnerability and risk assessments, current adaptive capacity, and other climate change initiatives in the country; identification of priority adaptation needs; preliminary exposure assessment; identification of key program areas in need for adjustment; recommendations to better manage climate change…

The project aimed to build capacity of UNDP country personnel Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen on climate risk management and flood early warning. Key activities included technical inputs to and delivery of training sessions.

The project assessed the vulnerability of communities and infrastructure to natural hazards, determine their degree of exposure to future hazardous events, and develop risk reduction recommendations to be integrated into development planning processes. The assessment will help to generate baselines for DRR programming in pilot provinces. The project is part of Australia Department of Foreign…

The project made a technical assessment on possible risks of natural disasters in project target areas in Northern Pakistan.

The study visit by 9 officials of Iraq’s Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center aimed to enhance their capacity on communicating emergency risk and crisis situations. The training covered: communication in emergency management, risk communication, and crisis communication. Visits to different institutions exposed participants to operational application of these concepts.

The project aimed to build capacity of UNDP country personnel in South and Southeast Asian regions on managing climate risks, in support of UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery’s (BCPR) strategic objective to establish climate risk management as service line within the disaster risk reduction and recovery (DRR) sub-practice. Key activities included development of…

The project aimed to strengthen community capacity to respond to rapid and slow onset climate hazards through Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) initiatives in at least 70 villages in Myanmar’s dry zone. Key activities included: Selection of project villages; assessment of existing DRM arrangements; hazard, vulnerability and resource mapping; development and integration of the…

The project aims to build capacity of: DOM to generate climate information at different timescales using NWP model and long-range statistical models DOH on basic and advanced hydrology Climate-sensitive sectors through Monsoon Forum process Farmers through FARM School Activities include: Training of trainers on basic and advanced NWP modeling and statistical model-based seasonal climate prediction…