Voluntary Commitments at a glance

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    National (or local) - Nepal
    Completed

    Enhance Disaster Governance at National, Sub-national, Local level in Nepal

    Provincial Government of Province 1, Nepal is going to formulate key policy documents as Disaster Resilient Policy, Strategic Action Plan, Disaster Response Framework, and Disaster Impact Assessment Guideline in the year 2019.
    National (or local) - Nigeria
    Progress not updated

    Enhancing Access to Resilience& Community Adaptation in North Central Nigeria

    Building Resilience of Women and Youth in Disaster Risk Reduction to Enhance Community Based Adaptation (CBA) for sustained rural livelihood
    National (or local) - Myanmar
    Progress not updated

    Early Warning Project in Myanmar

    Extreme weather events have had disastrous effects on quality of life and food production in Myanmar. Early Warning Systems are vital to provide decision aid to communities, improve agriculture and fishing practice, increase food security and protect the population.
    Regional - Africa, Americas, Asia
    Completed

    Raise DRR awareness through faith-based organisations

    ACT will use the extraordinary reach of its network of faith-based organizations to raise DRR awareness at grassroots level, by influencing local leadership and educating community members
    National (or local) - Mongolia
    Completed

    Strengthening disaster risk management through institutional development

    Mongolian Red Cross Society is committed to reduce disaster risk by building resilience through community based approach in both rural and urban areas. Mongolian Red Cross will strengthen capacity of 4 local Red Cross branches within the project framework.
    National (or local) - Philippines
    Completed

    Community Based Adaptation and Resilience Against Disasters (CBARAD) in the City of Iloilo

    This project effected community-level adaptation and resiliency schemes in the City of Iloilo in the Philippines and increased the awareness levels of citizens in order to create self-sustaining communities.
    Global
    Progress not updated

    Capacity Building and Scientific Research for Sendai Framework by the Japan Society of Disaster Nursing

    The Japan Society of Disaster Nursing is committed to systematize the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and other resources so that nurses can contribute to DRR globally and beyond the discipline.
    National (or local) - Japan, Nepal
    Completed

    Training on Structural and Seismic Engineering between Japan and Nepal

    A training project on knowledge-sharing between Japanese and Nepali Engineers to reduce future earthquake damages throughout Kathmandu and Nepal.
    National (or local) - Kenya
    Progress not updated

    Youth Resilience Ambassadors

    The program is a continuation of our August 2010-April 2011 Youth Training. Conducting three months training in emergency response, medical first aid, incident command system, firefighting, disaster management and environmental awareness.
    National (or local) - Chad, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Pakistan
    Completed

    Building Community Resilience through Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

    To enable local civil society organisations (CSOs) and faith-based organisations (FBOs) to strengthen communities and local systems for resilience to disasters, in coordination with other actors and sectors
    Global
    Completed

    Support Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience Building

    Support Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience Building by undertaking research and practice, supporting education, and forming partnerships that will advance risk reduction and resilience building in urban areas that are prone to natural hazards, the impacts of climate change and crises.
    National (or local) - Philippines
    Progress not updated

    Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Land Use Planning in Quezon City

    The project aims to enhance the competencies of the Quezon City Technical Working Group by conducting Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning training and mentoring sessions to build on the previous collaboration with the QC government on the development of their Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan
    National (or local) - Nigeria
    Completed

    DRR Business support group for small scale farmers and businesses in Nigeria

    The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Business Support Group (BSG) will engage, train and support small scale farmers and businesses in the mentioned States. The goal is to put them back to business and reduce the impact of disasters.
    National (or local) - Burkina Faso, Senegal, Chile, China, Nepal, Thailand
    Completed

    Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities

    Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) is the first global initiative to promote the use of ecosystem-based approaches and protect communities from disasters and the negative impacts of climate change.
    Global
    Progress not updated

    ResponderCQ: A Disaster Resilience Assessment and Data Management Service

    ResponderCQ is an online disaster resilience and data management assessment service designed to facilitate rapid evaluation of core capabilities and facilitate capability improvement through an online toolkit for government, business and humanitarian organizations. The service is free for end users.

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    The map reflects the number of countries/territories or regions covered by voluntary commitments. The numbers shown on the map represent the total commitments at the regional, national, and local levels. Regional voluntary commitments, which cover multiple countries, are counted together with national and local commitments to provide a comprehensive view of the engagement in each region.

    This map, the designations employed, and the presentation of the data do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the United Nations Secretariat concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delineation of its frontiers or boundaries.

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