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International Flood Initiative
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNESCO, WMO, UN/ISDR, UNU, IAHS and IAHRSummary:
International Flood Initiative (IFI) is a joint initiative in collaboration with such international organizations as UNESCO (IHP), WMO, UN/ISDR, UNU, IAHS and IAHR. IFI made its official launch in January 2005 at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) in Kobe, Japan. To coordinate IFI activities, the IFI Secretariat is located in ICHARM, Tsukuba, Japan.
Project Components:
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), building on past cooperative successes, have launched the International Flood Initiative (IFI) to address existing management gaps through a holistic approach and to provide a platform for further collaborative efforts. The initiative will work in close cooperation with the United Nations University (UNU), the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), IAHS and IAHR.
Expected Outputs:
IFI’s overall objective is to build the necessary in-Country capacity to gain and advocate for a better understanding and handling of hazards, vulnerabilities and benefits associated with floods. IFI’s specific objectives will enable the countries to:
• Improve data collection and analysis for flood management
• Broaden the knowledge-base with respect to the risks and benefits of floods
• Take advantage of the benefits of floods and flood plains
• Build on and improve institutional frameworks for flood management
• Develop area-specific adaptation strategies
• Develop approaches to assess and reduce vulnerability
• Improve floodplain management in rural and urban areas
• Optimize a mix of structural and non-structural approaches to flood management
• Improve flood forecasting and early warning for both urban and rural areas
• Increase the effectiveness of forecasts and people-centered early warning systems
• Improve community responses to flood hazards
• Strengthen coping capacity to deal with flood risks under climate change
• Develop participatory approaches to be used in a variety of contexts and cultural settings
• Increase flood awareness and preparedness with a focus on rural settings
• Incorporate flood management into school and university curricula
• Improve in-service training in all aspects of flood management
• Develop financial mechanisms for transferring risks and sharing losses from floods
• Increase the effectiveness of forecasts and people-centered early warning systems
• Improve community responses to flood hazards
• Strengthen coping capacity to deal with flood risks under climate change
• Develop participatory approaches to be used in a variety of contexts and cultural settings
• Increase flood awareness and preparedness with a focus on rural settings
• Incorporate flood management into school and university curricula
• Improve in-service training in all aspects of flood management
• Develop financial mechanisms for transferring risks and sharing losses from floodsContacts:
Ali Chavoshian
Contact Telephone: +81 29 879 6815
Contact FAX: +81 29 879 6709
Address:
ICHARM/PWRI
1-6, Minamihara, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-8516, Japan
E-Mail: info@ifi-home.infoProject Status:
Under implementation
Teacher's Solar Light Project
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Project details
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Implementing Agency:
World BankImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
PNG Sustainable Development Program, Ltd.Summary:
The main development objective of this project is to improve the life of rural human services providers by making available affordable, environmentally sound, basic electricity services from renewable energy. This will help improve teacher and health worker retention by reducing isolation (through access to radio and other communications) and providing safer and better living conditions (through access to lower-cost, better quality lighting).
Project Components:
1. Provide an affordable financing package which will make the purchase of solar lighting kits affordable for teachers, health workers, and eventually the general public; 2. Build capacity within the PNG renewable energy industry, by requiring retailers to obtain PV-Gap certification (which include ISO 9000) and by regularly producing a catalogue with certified solar PV components; and 3. Build consumer awareness and confidence in the use of solar lighting, by requiring extensive outreach and support to SHLK purchasers;
Contacts:
World Bank Contact:
Wendy Hughes
Email: whughes@worldbank.orgProject Status:
Under Implementation
Local Governance and Community Participation in Oil Palm Growing Provinces
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)Summary:
The overall goal of the project is to develop and demonstrate sustainable mechanisms for local governance, thereby supplementing grants currently being provided by the national Government to local-level governments (LLGs) in the project areas and promoting participatory planning and local accountability at the community level. Implementation will be phased and the approach will promote self- reliant local development through:
1. Community mobilization, facilitated by local motivators;
Project Components:
1. Development Grants 2. Capacity-building 3. Capital Support for participating LLGs and districts
Expected Outputs:
1. Subprojects implemented utilizing grants to LLGs through a participatory process; 2. Capacity developed among all stakeholders to plan, budget, implement, monitor and evaluate LLG development grants; and 3. Upgraded districts and LLG facilities.
Contacts:
World Bank Contact:
Wendy Hughes
Email: whughes@worldbank.orgProject Status:
Implementation pending WB Approval
