UNDP Myanmar has developed a new programme for 2013-2015 with the aim to promoting local governance, growth and sustainable development with the emphasis on rights-based, gender sensitive, inclusive and equity. This goal will be pursued through three complementary pillars; Pillar I - Local Governance, Pillar II - Environmental Governance and Disaster Resilience, and Pillar 3- Democratic Governance.
Pillar II focuses on strengthening capacities at local, regional and national level to manage and utilize natural resources in a sustainable way, and to enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to long-term climate change including variability impacts and to reduce the associated risk of natural disasters. One of the components of the pillar II is “capacities to adapt to climate change and reduce disaster risk at the local, regional and national level”. UNDP Disaster Risk Reduction Project aims to build disaster resilient communities by enhancing the country’s disaster risk management institutions, systems and networks. The project sets out to build preparedness, mitigation, recovery capacities of communities, the civil society and local and national institutions to manage the impact of disasters, as well as the capacity to incorporate DRR into development planning.
UNDP facilitates the Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRR WG), comprising of over 60 agencies including the UN, international NGOs, local NGOs and professional organizations working for DRR.
UNDP is recruiting a National Project Coordinator (Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation) to support effective implementation of the Disaster Risk Reduction Project and to strengthen the inter-agency coordination in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation to contribute to building disaster and climate change resilience in Myanmar.
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