Disaster Resilience for Pacific SIDS (RESPAC)
Description
Given identified gaps, the work of others, the skills and experience of UNDP, the project:
- Strengthens EWs and climate monitoring capacity;
- Strengthens preparedness/planning mechanisms to manage disaster recovery;
- Increased use of financial instruments to manage and share disaster-related risks and fund post-disaster recovery efforts.
It strengthens preparedness through improved disaster EW and climate information, response services and communication to reduce losses/impacts on the most vulnerable and addresses Resilient Recovery.
UNDP Pacific Office will be the entity responsible and accountable for day-to-day management of the project, including monitoring and evaluation of project interventions, achieving project outputs, and for the effective use of resources. Based on the approved annual work plan (AWP), the Project Board reviews and approves project stage plans and authorizes any major deviation from these agreed stage plans. It is the authority that signs off on the completion of each stage plan as well as authorizes the start of the next stage plan. It ensures that required resources are committed and arbitrates any conflicts within the project or negotiates a solution to any problems between the project and external bodies.
In order to ensure UNDP’s ultimate accountability for the project results, Project Board decisions will be made in accordance with standards that shall ensure management for development results, best value money, fairness, integrity, transparency and effective international competition. In case consensus cannot be reached within the Board, the final decision shall rest with the UNDP.
Through the Partnerships and deployment of Experts, short- (few days) and long-term (1-2 months) capacity building exercises are planned for the duration of the project tailored to the needs of the countries and efforts for accreditation of some courses are pursued.<br />
Equipment and related technology (including specialised and tailored software) will be invested in certain highly vulnerable countries and will be sustainably managed by the countries thereafter.
The project will be managed by the UNDP Pacific Office Resilience and Sustainable Development team, located in Fiji. The project will be further supported by UNDP Multi-Country Offices in the Region. <br />
The project will receive strategic guidance from a Project Board; the Project Board will provide oversight and be overall responsibility for providing high level strategic directions for the project, such as ensuring that the project is focused on achieving its stated objectives throughout its life cycle, delivering quality outputs that will contribute to higher level outcomes. The Board makes management decisions for a project when guidance is required by the Project Manager and when project tolerances have been exceeded. <br />
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To ensure complementary and not competing or overlapping activities the Project will work closely with PIC Governments and partner agencies that will include national planning offices, national meteorological services, line ministries, and national disaster management offices. Other partner agencies/organisations will include the Secretariat of the Pacific (SPC) GeoScience Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Program (SPREP), University of the South Pacific, Pacific Meteorology Council, PHT members and UN Agencies. Prospective Russian partner agencies include the National Emergency Management Centre (EMERCOM) and the Russian Federation Service for Hydro-Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (ROSHYDROMET).<br />
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SDGS & Targets
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
SDG 14 targets covered
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Noud Leenders, Project Manager, Disaster Resilience for Pacific SIDS (RESPAC),