Presence in the area. UNDP, UNICEF and UN Women have been present in Nepal since 1963, 1964 and 2012 respectively. UNDP has been working towards sustainable development and resilience with focus on the most remote, poor, vulnerable population across all provinces. Reduction of vulnerability to disaster and climate risks is a core UNDP approach to promote resilient and sustainable development, and has been a key partner to Government of Nepal (GoN) on: Promoting seismic resilience in urban areas, emergency preparedness for better response and recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction &Management (DRRM) Governance, policy and legal issues, climate change adaptation (CCA) and community based DRM. UNDP has been technical partner to GoN on innovations relating to urban resilience, eg: risk sensitive land use planning for urban areas piloting from Kathmandu Valley, promotion of national building codes- in its formulation, building capacity of federal government and municipalities in its implementation and scaling up and in urban Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). UNDP engagement with GoN has been significant in strengthening disaster risk governance, emergency preparedness for better response and promoting early warning and action across Nepal. UNICEF programmes address the changing needs of children, women and local communities, with the ongoing Country Programme focusing on five Provinces (Province 2, Lumbini, Gandaki, Sudurpaschim and Karnali Provinces) covering 484 (out of 753) municipalities. UNICEF’s programmes for 2018-2022 are focused on areas related to health; nutrition; child protection; education; water, sanitation and hygiene; and social protection. Early childhood development, adolescents, disability, gender, DRR and CCA are issues being tackled across sectors in UNICEF. UNICEF has a long history of working in emergencies and humanitarian contexts, with all three tiers of government for upstream policy work and mainstreaming DRR into annual plans and programmes. Child-centred approach on DRR and CCA, focusing on children's inclusion and participation and consideration of their vulnerabilities and special needs during the design and implementation is a strength. UNICEF responded to all medium to large scale disasters in Nepal including, 1988 Earthquake affecting eastern region, 2008 Koshi flood, 2014 floods in Surkhet, 2015 earthquakes, 2017 floods, 2019 floods, and recently COVID 19. Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the UN Charter, UN Women in Nepal, prioritises: a) ...
Presence in the area. UNDP established its office in Trinidad and Tobago in 1961 and has been supporting and facilitating national development in-country for over fifty years. This is currently a multi country office servicing Aruba, Curacao and Sint. Xxxxxx. UNDPs key focus areas include poverty reduction; energy, environment and disaster risk reduction; democratic governance and rule of law/citizen security. Over the years UNDP has solidified strong partnerships with the Government Ministries and Agencies, Civil Society Organizations and the Private Sector. These relationships have enabled and contributed to UNDPs service delivery and impact. UNDP aims to create an enabling environment where the Government has the capacities for inclusive and sustainable human development. UNDP Trinidad and Tobago has worked on a number of initiatives related to mitigation and disaster risk reduction that have focused on first responders, capacity development for disaster risk management, and reduction of carbon emissions amongst other themes. The country has also had a specific DRR project in connection to the recovery phase in St Maarten after the passage of Xxxx and Xxxxx in 2017. To address climate resilience and reduce disaster risk, UNDP takes a multi-dimensional approach integrating policy, capacity-building and local community measures. Interventions have sought to leverage the knowledge of a broad cross section of stakeholders and address particular vulnerabilities for increased resilience with a focus on early warning, critical infrastructure, local and national capacity building in Disaster Risk Reduction, inclusive of response and recovery and approaches for integrating humanitarian systems in Trinidad and Tobago. This has resulted in the piloting of DRR Management Centers in Trinidad, a mapping and ranking of critical infrastructure and the development of working papers on Strengthening Emergency Communications and Establishing a Multi Hazard Early Warning System for Trinidad and Tobago. In 2020, UNDP has assisted with updating the National Alert system platform by upgrading the existing emergency communications technology and software and supporting the rollout of the associated communications strategy for the National Alert system. On the policy side UNDP has supported the inclusion of disaster risk reduction principles in national and sectoral development frameworks and planning processes. Advice and feedback are provided as a sitting member of the Technical Review Committee f...
