Climate change adaptation & disaster risk management for increasing natural and human resilience

Description

Due to fragmented approach to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, it was realized that there is a need to perform mapping and assessing linkages between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Jordan in order to develop recommendations – and project proposal – for the potential of such linkages to increase natural and human resilience at the national and local level.

To achieve the stated goal, it is necessary to undertake the following components in close collaboration with the Ministry of Environment (in particular its focal point for CC), Jordan Civil Defense (in particular its directors for disaster management and planning), and Ministry of Social Development (in particular its head of policy and strategic planning directors as well as the poverty reduction program):

• Map and assess existing and potential linkages between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR),
• Assist the Government of Jordan to design a Framework for Action and a detailed three-year Action Plan to promote potential linkages between current efforts to promote climate change adaptation and current disaster risk management efforts with the objective of increasing natural and human resilience,
• Identify and develop a project proposal to be supported by UNDP.

Services

• Contribution to the implementation of project activities.
• Contribution to identification and assessing existing and potential associations between climate change adaptation and disaster reduction bodies.
• Information gathering and literature revision.
• Facilitating stakeholders’ consultation meetings, feedback session, and workshops.
• Participation in field visits, group sessions and interviewing
• Development of a draft project proposal with the integration of stakeholders’ comments and input