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  • Program:
    Regional Energy Programme for Poverty Reduction
    Leading Organization:
    South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), SPREP
    Summary:

    PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The objective of this 4-year project is to provide technical support to SOPAC (and in collaboration with SPREP) on the development of National Action Plans (NAP) for mainstreaming DRM into development and budgetary processes including: facilitation of in country engagement; supporting government task-forces in formulating, writing and costing the NAP.

     

    BACKGROUND: The Pacific is a highly disaster prone region, where countries are threatened by a variety of natural hazards of geological and meteorological origin. The occurrence of natural hazards is also likely to be made worse by the onset of climate change. In the last 15 years the focus in disaster management in the region has mainly been on disaster response and disaster reduction, prevention and risk management activities have thus been fragmented. While this focus has recently shifted with the development of the Hyogo Framework and the Regional Framework for Action, there are still a number of challenges involved in mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) in the Pacific including weak institutional arrangements and capacities, and competing national priorities.

    Expected Outputs:

    1. NAPs for Pacific Islands Countries
    2. Implementation plans with allocated responsibilities, time-frames, estimated costs and monitoring and evaluation indicators
    3. Support to the development of guidelines for mainstreaming DRM and ACC into planning and budgetary processes to support global best practice

    Contacts:

    UNDP Pacific Centre:
    Moortaza Jiwanji
    DRM Programme Specialist
    moortaza.jiwanji@undp.org

    Project Status:
    Under Implementation (as of March 2011)
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    UNDP
    Cofinancing Total:
    N/A
    Total Amounts:
    $500,000 per country
    Resources:
    Summary of Climate Change Projects implemented/funded/overseen by UNDP PC
    UNDP Crisis Prevention and Recovery
    Key Donor Engagements - Marshall Islands
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