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Evals for Day 4 [Please help us complete it if you haven't] 

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Evals for Day 4 [Please help us complete it if you haven't] 

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Recording of SG-UNDRR Understanding Risk 

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We greatly appreciate if you complete the evaluation for day 1 programme.

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Class Profile of Sin-UNDRR Joint Training Programme - Understanding Risk Management and Risk Financing for Disaster Resilience (padlet.com)

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[Group Work] Please add a post in this column to upload your group work for Day 3 (9 May).

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[Group Work] Please add a post in this column to upload your group work for Day 3 (9 May).

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Reading 1 on Cost Benefit Analysis by Prof Vinod Thomas 

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Reading 1 on Cost Benefit Analysis by Prof Vinod Thomas 

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Source: Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development. Chapter 3 written by Vinod Thomas and Namrata Chindarkar

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For individual follow-up, here are key email addresses:
CAF (OSCAR) - oguevara@caf.com

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Welcome to the Programme!

This Padlet is our meeting place during the programme when we are not together on Zoom. You can find links to the Programme Schedule, Speaker CVs, Presentation Materials, and space for sharing your Experiences & Reflections.

Do find opportunities to connect with the material & with each other as you journey together in this programme!

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1.1 Risk-Informed Planning & the Imperative for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Disaster Risk Reduction

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1.1 Risk-Informed Planning & the Imperative for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Disaster Risk Reduction

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Risk-Informed Planning & the Imperative for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Disaster Risk Reduction

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1.2 Whole-of Government Approach to Governance in Singapore by Jean Chia, CSC 

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1.2 Whole-of Government Approach to Governance in Singapore by Jean Chia, CSC 

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1.3 Understanding Systemic Risk by Prof Vinod Thomas 

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1.3 Understanding Systemic Risk by Prof Vinod Thomas 

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1.4 Lesson from Covid-19 in Singapore by Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore 

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1.4 Lesson from Covid-19 in Singapore by Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore 

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Singapore's WOG Approach to Crisis Management (10 Mar 23) latest (1)

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Reading 2 on Cost-Benefit Analysis by Prof Vinod Thomas

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Reading 2 on Cost-Benefit Analysis by Prof Vinod Thomas

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Programme Management Officer

Dr. Torres holds a PhD in Risk and Emergency Management from the University School for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS), Italy; For more than 13 years he worked at UNESCO where he served as a consultant in the Unit for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, as well as contributing to the development of activities of the International Hydrological Program and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. During his time at UNESCO, he was responsible for the International Platform for Earthquake Early Warning Systems, the International Network for Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems, and the Program to Measure Resilience. He is currently the Programme Management Officer of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) for the Americas and the Caribbean, based in Barbados. He works on issues related to risk knowledge and awareness, support to countries in the development of national strategies for disaster risk reduction, and the UNDRR focal point for the Early Warning for All Initiative and regional project related, for instance through the Climate Related Early Warning Systems (CREWS), among other topics.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is informed by the latest data – including Sendai Framework target reporting by countries using the Sendai Framework Monitor – and infers early lessons on the state of the global disaster risk landscape. While the observed period is still too short to reach definitive conclusions at a global scale, it is possible to ascertain certain patterns in terms of magnitude, geographic and socioeconomic distribution of impacts and abstract several points of departure for where and how countries have seen successes in reducing risk.

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic:an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic:an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean

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The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgent need for new conceptual and analytical approaches to improve understanding and management of risk dynamics and complex, interconnected risk drivers with cascading effects. Progress will only be accelerated towards risk-informed sustainable development and regeneration by strengthening the understanding of system risk and incorporating systems-based approaches in the design of policies and investments across all sectors, geographies and scales. Improved risk governance is essential. There is an opportunity to build on progress to date.

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REPORT The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic - an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean

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Hazard definition and classification review

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Hazard definition and classification review

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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (‘the Sendai Framework’) was one of three landmark agreements adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The other two being the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The UNDRR/ISC Sendai Hazard Definition and Classification Review Technical Report supports all three by providing a common set of hazard definitions for monitoring and reviewing implementation which calls for “a data revolution, rigorous accountability mechanisms and renewed global partnerships”.

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This report is a Supplement to the UNDRR-ISC Hazard Definition and Classification Review - Technical report released in July 2020. Aligned with the list of hazards published in the Technical Report, this Supplement comprises of a description of each of the 302 hazard information profiles (HIPs), developed using a consultative process by scientists and experts across the globe.

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Hazard Information Profiles - Supplement to UNDRR-ISC Hazard Definition & Classification Review - Technical Report (1)

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Please upload your group work into Google Drive here.

Please label your file with your Zoom breakout room number so we can identify your group.

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Additional Reading on climate change vs economic growth by Vinod Thomas  

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Additional Reading on climate change vs economic growth by Vinod Thomas  

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The truth about climate action versus economic growth

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Vinod Thomas argues that climate mitigation and global economic development efforts must be seen as two sides of the same coin, not mutually exclusive ends.

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by Omar Bello, ECLAC

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Meeting ID: 920 1383 5915

Password: 020523

URL: https://zoom.us/j/92013835915?pwd=Q3FOVEM1VTlzdXB4eUplWE5qZkJxdz09

Please display your name as “Country Name”

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3.2 Understanding Singapore Policy Process through the lens of Singapore Green Plan

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3.2 Understanding Singapore Policy Process through the lens of Singapore Green Plan

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2023-05-09 SIN-UNDRR Joint Training Programme (Sharing on Singapore Green Plan)

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Group 2- Having in mind the CRM Approach, which recommendations would you provide to your government to ensure financial coherence?

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Group 2- Having in mind the CRM Approach, which recommendations would you provide to your government to ensure financial coherence?

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·       Trinidad and Tobago- need for clearer reporting on the budget allocation for CRM

·       Bahamas- disaster risk management has the least allocated budget; need for increased budget

·       Regional Governments-continue to use cash flow for treating with events (where available); use CCRIF funds for preventative measures.

·       Barbados-access alternative financial mechanisms such as IDB contingency funds to finance disaster response/recovery

·       Jamaica-mix of financial instruments are used - Contingency fund, CCRIF Parametric insurance, bonds; recommend this diverse approach to other governments

·       Dominica- efforts towards becoming climate resilience, specific agency set up; whole of govt approach- good example for other governments

·       St. Kitts- allocate additional resources to adaptation plans; for example, urban plan-looking at inherent vulnerabilities of cities and allocating funds to make them more resilient ahead of disasters.

Regional governments must consider how to build resilience and put contingencies in place in national adaptation plans.

·       Guyana- there is a lack of decentralisation of DRM, due to lack of financial allocation for DRM at the regional level; need for increased financing at the regional level
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3.3 Overview of Singapore’s Experiences and Strategies in Climate Risk Management

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3.3 Overview of Singapore’s Experiences and Strategies in Climate Risk Management

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2023-05-09 SIN-UNDRR Joint Training Programme (Sharing on Climate Risk Management in Singapore)

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[Group Work] Please add a post in this column to upload your group work for Day 2 (4 May).

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Day 2_Group 1_Case Study 2. Disaster Risk Management

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Comprehensive Climate and Disaster Risk Management -  The Caribbean Snapshot (May 2023)

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Antigua- Cost benefits of social impacts, Coherence of Risk levels integration in the community. Strategies to be employed for integration of coherence and its outcome, may vary throughout the region. As a result, financial objectives must be clearly established.
conduct a policy coherence analysis which incorporates conceptual and financial coherence in the region.
Access opportunities for global financing.

Trinidad and Tobago- Funding for the maintenance of the environment through effective monitoring at local and community levels.

Haiti- There is lack of planning in waste reduction. A national tax for Disaster Risk Reduction measures utilizing education to increase awareness.

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 Understanding Green Finance, Climate Finance, and Instruments of Climate Financing (Vinod Thomas)

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 Understanding Green Finance, Climate Finance, and Instruments of Climate Financing (Vinod Thomas)

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Challenged in comparing SE Asia to C'bean but the C'bean experiences are relevant.

CASE STUDY #3
•What is the best approach once a pandemic has started in coordination, awareness, public health messaging, quarantine, reduction of transmission, and care for the ill?

[NB: While this was the main point explored some of the discussion touched on other points in the case study such as financing.]

Sint Maarten experience: the 2017 Hurricane Irma impact showed that there aspects of the national response mechanisms were not up to par. While working on recovering from H. Irma, the global pandemic came in 2020. The pandemic presented new challenges to NEMS. Based on these two experiences , some lessons learned about the best approaches include:
--critical value of robust Public Communication to get the message out better to different audiences
--More structured crisis management teams/strengthen these teams
--Increase and improve collaboration with other parts of the kingdom to identify avenues by which they can better support each other.

Haiti Approach
--Haiti uses a decentralised approach to the national DRM system;
--Emphasise/invest in building capacity at the community level to empower citizens address risks/impacts;

General
--Learn lessons from other countries in the global sphere, facilitate exchange of experiences;
--Need to understand the risk and the impacts;
--mitigate future risk by strengthening the core Public Health/Health structure,
--Increase institutional awareness of risk management

Financing:
--there is a need for better financing all round, considering the implications of climate change there is a need to direct climate financing to address health risks;
--Build relationships with external/regional development banks to direct financing where it is needed.

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Group 3: How would you make Risk Transfer attractive?

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Group 3: How would you make Risk Transfer attractive?

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1.     Incentivizing-seeing insurance as an investment rather than as a cost

·       Promoting the benefits of insurance on a community and individual level: CCRIF SPC is currently pursuing this through its livelihood protection policy in collaboration with the private sector (credit union, co-operatives). It seeks to stabiliise the financial situation and livelihoods of vulnerable individuals regardless of annual income. There is no eligibility criteria.

·       Use of surplus funds from parametric insurance schemes for disaster/climate risk financing; for example, CCRIF SPC Small Grants Programme which provides funds for community projects such as the construction of retaining walls. CCRIF SPC also uses surplus funds from this scheme to build national capacities for climate and disaster risk management through its internship and scholarship programmes.

2.     Highlight the benefits of Insurance

·       Quick cash liquidity in times of Disaster to support recovery efforts; for example, the damages caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017 amounted to 226% of the country’s GDP. The country received a payout of USD 19 m which facilitated timely response and recovery efforts.

3.     Pairing donor funds with insurance

·       Risk transfer (the purchase of insurance) as an element of development projects

·       Use percentage of donor funds for purchasing insurance

·       Donors topping up country premiums

·       Donors providing funds specifically for insurance; e.g Grant of USD 1.6 millon from Irish Aid, allowing five Caribbean countries to access CCRIF SPC fisheries insurance.

4.     View insurance not as a cost but as Deferred borrowing- conduct cost benefit analysis to support this perspective

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Joint Presentation for UNDRR Virtual Workshop (May 2023)

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A fair share of resilience finance  for Small Island Developing States  Closing the gap between vulnerability and allocation 

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A fair share of resilience finance  for Small Island Developing States  Closing the gap between vulnerability and allocation 

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Through this research and other advisory activities, ODI’s Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) is helping SIDS and their partners to bring about changes in international development and climate finance, and find solutions to growing sustainability challenges

in small islands.

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Enhancing Build back better from an economic lens

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Enhancing Build back better from an economic lens

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Dr. Omar D. Bello, ECLAC

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Mobilizing Private Sector for DRR Financing in the Caribbean

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Mobilizing Private Sector for DRR Financing in the Caribbean

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Lizra Fabien

ARISE Focal Point, Dominica

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Mobilizing Private Sector for DRR Financing in the Caribbean Presentation