Resilient business for resilient nations and communities

Resilient Business for Resilient Nations and Communities shows how the private sector can act as a key partner for reducing disaster risk that can affect a country's overall resilience to disasters. This report is among the first to document the evolving thoughts and practices of the private sector in disaster risk management. It offers Asia-Pacific perspectives on the respective roles and responsibilities of the private and public sectors in promoting resilience, highlighting good practices, case studies and lessons learned. The report calls on the private sector to contribute to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Community-based disaster risk management : field practitioners' handbook

The concept of Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) has emerged during the past two decades in South East Asian countries. The promoters included NGOs, citizen’s organizations, humanitarian agencies and government departments in different countries in the region. Despite this rapid expansion in application, a great majority of CBDRM practitioners lack opportunities for skill development and capacity building. Although there are a number of courses available on community-based disaster risk management, it is not possible for all practitioners to participate in such courses due to problems of funding and language. The PDR SEA project, under the guidance of UNESCAP, took steps to fill that need by producing information and training materials such as this handbook

ICT, climate change, and green growth : a learning resource on ICT for development for institutions of higher education

This Primer addresses the role that information and communication technology (ICT) can play in enhancing the ability and capacity of humans to deal with the impact of climate change and contribute to sustainable development. The principle of sustainable development is an important guide to ensure that the use of ICT to tackle climate change effects is done in a way that does not impact on the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. There are two main policy responses to climate change: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation addresses the root causes, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while adaptation seeks to lower the risks posed by the consequences of climatic change. Both approaches will be necessary, because even if emissions are dramatically decreased in the next decade, adaptation will still be needed to deal with the global changes that have already been set in motion. This Primer focuses on the role that ICT can play in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Since climate and the environment are linked, this Primer also considers the role of ICT in helping humans understand the environment that surrounds them, which is a prerequisite for tackling the problems of climate change

Community-based disaster risk management and the media

The Media Kit was developed through the Partnerships for Disaster Reduction - Southeast Asia Phase 3 (PDRSEA 3) jointly implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and the UNESCAP with funding support from DIPECHO. This Media Kit has been developed as a guide for media professionals in the five countries: i) as a Handout for the National Orientation Workshop for Media; ii) to raise the awareness of media about its role in disaster risk reduction; and iii) to enable them to perform that role in an effective manner. The Handbook is comprised of two parts. Part one explains the key concepts of disaster and media, CBDRM, the role of media in disaster risk management, and useful information for the media on disaster preparedness. Part two includes country-based resources such as hazard profiles, case studies on CBDRM. and contact information of national and regional organizations engaged in disaster risk management.Project jointly implemented by ADPC and UNESCAP with funding support from DIPECH

Proceedings of the Fourth Disaster Management Practitioners' Workshop for Southeast Asia : learning from community-based practices: strengthening policy and partnerships

This publication documents the proceedings of the Fourth Disaster Management Practitioners' Workshop, which focused on strengthening partnerships for disaster reduction in Southeast Asia. It covers discussions on strategies for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and enhancing disaster preparedness and resilience in the region.Funding support from DIPECH

ICT, climate change and green growth

This module aims to provide an audience of decision makers with an understanding of the role that ICTs play in observing and monitoring the environment, sharing information about the environment, mobilizing action, facilitating and enhancing environmental decision making, promoting environmental sustainability and abating climate change. The module also explores the potential of ICT to transform the economy into an engine for sustainable &ldquo;green&rdquo; growth, and considers how to integrate ICT into such an economy.</p

Renewing Climate Planning Locally to Attend the 11th Sustainable Development Goal in the Tropics

In the last seven years, tropical cities with a climate plan have tripled compared to the previous seven years. According to the 11th United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal, climate planning should significantly increase by 2030. The Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction (2015) and the New urban agenda signed in Quito (2016) indicate how to achieve this goal through analysis, categories of plans and specific measures. This chapter identifies the main obstacles to the significant increase in tropical human settlements with a climate plan and the possible solutions. First of all, the distribution and trend at 2030 of tropical human settlements are ascertained. Then local access to information on damage, hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk, and the consideration of these aspects in the national guides to local climate planning are verified. Lastly, the categories of plans and climate measures recommended by the United Nations are compared with those that are most common today, using a database of 401 climate plans for 338 tropical cities relating to 41 countries. The chapter highlights the fact that the prescription for treating tropical cities affected by climate change has been prepared without an accurate diagnosis. Significantly increasing climate planning must consider that small-medium human settlements in the Tropics will prevail at least until 2030. And most effort will be required from Developing and Least Developed Countries. The recommendations of the United Nations concerning the preliminary analyses ignore the fact that local authorities usually do not have access to the necessary information