Research Assistant for The Regional Assessment

hace 2 semanas

Panamá, Panamá, Panamá United Nations A tiempo completo
Result of Service
a. An organized and managed information base with all the information received by the coordinator and associated researchers.

b. A database of interviews conducted with key individuals, including recordings, transcripts, and summaries.

c. A digital record of the "call for contributions".

d. An updated virtual schedule.

e. Memories of workshops and virtual and face-to-face meetings.

Work Location
Home based

Expected duration
Six (6) months

Responsibilities:

Background


Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations and regional organizations and activities in socio-economic and humanitarian fields.

Led by the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNDRR has around 100 staff located in its HQ in Geneva, Switzerland, and 5 regional offices and other field presences.


In adopting the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Sendai Framework), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda), the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, Member States clearly identified the prevention of new risk, the reduction of existing risk and the strengthening of resilience as central to global efforts towards sustainable development.

The Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) serve to periodically demonstrate worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk.

The GAR is the product of contributions by different UNDRR partners, including from regional, national, and local governmental authorities, public and private sectors, the scientific and academic community, individual contributors, amongst others.

The Americas and Caribbean region is highly exposed to natural hazards.

Combined with existing vulnerabilities, the context is one of great losses, even to the extent of exceeding many of the countries' GDPs (Gross Domestic Product), thus challenging the overall sustainable development of the region.

Additionally, climate change increases the frequency, intensity, and unpredictability of impacts, making it even more important for all countries across the region to possess strong capacities to manage the existing and emerging risks and to avoid the creation of new ones.


Based on this context, the development of a Regional Assessment Report (RAR) becomes a relevant instrument to enhance understanding of the current trends and patterns of risk in the region; increase understanding of DRR from a development, climate, and other emerging perspectives; provide focused policy recommendations for the region; and facilitate understanding and tracking of Sendai targets.


In 2021, UNDRR launched the first Regional Assessment Report on Disaster Risk in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAR21): Challenges for disaster risk reduction and progress towards the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction The Report, based on today's most advanced and accepted scientific concepts, modes of analysis, and methods, takes stock of thirty years of efforts to reduce disaster risk and highlights challenges for the future, including the need for significant changes in understanding risk and its causality and, building on this, the need to rethink and innovate with mechanisms and governance structures for disaster risk reduction.


In coordination with the sub-regional Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) CDEMA/CARICOM, CEPREDENAC/SICA, CAPRADE /CAN and RMAGIR/MERCOSUR, the UNDRR Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean will facilitate the production of a Regional Assessment Report (RAR23).

Preparing for RAR23 will rely, amongst other inputs, on the outcomes of the VIII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean:
"Science and Technology for Integrated Disaster Risk Management" (PR23) to be held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from the 28th of February to 2 March 2023. This is so given the consideration the Regional Platform will afford to the progress and challenges faced in implementing the Sendai Framework and the updated 2021 Regional Action Plan

  • RAP; to proposals and collective responses to the challenges established in the RAR-LAC 2021; and to the analysis of sustained, attractive and valid mechanisms for the best use of technology in DRR.


The Regional Action Plan (RAP) for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean was adopted by Member States at the V Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas (7-9 March 2017, Montreal, Canada) and updated at the VII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (1-4 November 2021, hosted virtually by the Government of Jamaica).

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