UNDP
28 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: Four reports published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) address climate risk management (CRM) in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru. The reports were written as part of the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) CRM Technical Assistance Support Project (TASP).
CRM TASP is led by UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) with inputs from the UNDP Bureau for Development Policy Energy and Environment Group (BDP/EEG)....
13 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 February 2013: In a lecture titled “UN Progress on the Global Development Agenda, Post-2015 and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs),” UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark highlighted progress on health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), discussed the role of health and NCDs in the post-2015 agenda and commented on how collaboration between development and health actors can support multi-sectoral action on NCDs.
In the lecture, which was delivered at the launch of...
13 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 February 2013: The Low Emission Capacity Building Programme (LECBP) has hosted a webinar that introduced LECBP country teams and other practitioners to an approach developed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to prioritizing nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs). The approach has been tested and implemented in Trinidad and Tobago, Bangladesh and Kenya.
A report and presentations from the webinar, held on 17 January 2013, have been made available...
12 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2013: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness (CDDE) Facility have published a paper that provides guidance to donors and decision makers on how to organize national financial flows more effectively for climate finance, and mobilize additional public finance from domestic and international sources.
The core message of the report, titled “Making Sense of Climate Finance: Linking Public Finance and National Climate Change Policy in...
11 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 February 2013: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has published assessments of climate-related Investment and Financial Flows (I&FF) in 15 countries, in order to provide decision makers with information on timing, sources, investment entities and other key factors relevant to climate finance.
The assessments, conducted with national partners from Ministries of Planning, Finance, Environment, as well as the private sector, academia and non-profit organizations, inquired into national...
