Building adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in the Central Asia

The Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for the Aral Sea Basin (CAMP4ASB) aims to enhance regional access to improved climate change knowledge and climate services for project stakeholders. Under this program, the main objective of the project is to build … Read More

Developing Capacity for Climate Resilient Road Transport Infrastructure

Rwanda’s road vulnerability to climate-change has increased steadily in the last decades. This includes vulnerability to land erosion and landslides as well as flooding, resulting in road damage and service interruptions. The Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) is the main … Read More

Technical Evaluation of Water Resilience and Disaster Early Warning Communication Measures in Marshall Islands

Targeted and evidence-based evaluation in partnership with existing national, regional, and community stakeholders and systems to strengthen and support the existing drought response coordination mechanism led by the RMI Government (i.e. the Emergency Operation Centre / NDMO and the WASH … Read More

Climate Risk, Vulnerability and Needs Assessment for Morobe, Madang, East Sepik, Northern and New Ireland Provinces of Papua New Guinea

The main objective of this assessment is to identify Climate Risks in terms of, principal climate hazards that affect the province and the extent of Exposure and Vulnerability in case of each climate hazard identified and, to prepare a Composite … Read More

Badakhshan Natural Disaster Prevention Project – Improvement and Awareness Raising of Risk Mapping

Flood risk modelling and mapping for the entire Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan based on a combined modelling / remote sensing approach, the development of detailed flood maps, development of guidelines for map use in English and Dari as well as … Read More

Recovering Living Conditions and Building Resilience of Communities Affected by the 2013 Floods in Cambodia

Study on community safe areas negatively affected by the 2013 floods. The overall purpose of the consultancy is to assess the condition and potential flood safety of identified community safe areas in flood prone areas in Sereisophon and Mongkul Borei … Read More

Responding to Climate Change in Mozambique, Phase III – Development of a Flood Extension for the Zambezi DSS and Real Time Flood Forecasting Pilot

  The project expanded the Zambezi Water Resources Decision Support System (ZDSS: hosted at http://hydro.poyry.at/zambezi/) developed by Hydroc under INGC Phase II to include flood inundation mapping and zoning under a variety of potential development options and climate change scenarios, … Read More

Climate Change Adaptation and Impact Assessment Study for Munda Dam

Munda Dam is a multipurpose project catering for hydropower, irrigation water and flood protection purposes. The objective of the study is to assess the feasibility for constructing a hydropower dam in Munda, Pakistan. Works focus on climate change adaptation and … Read More

Integrated Flood Management in Kampala, Overall Assessment of Flood Risk with Pilot Flood Hazard Mapping under Climate Change

The project is conducted according to the principles of integrated flood management, carried out under the auspices of UN-Habitat’s Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI). The objectives of the assessment include 1. a comprehensive, city-wide assessment of the risks of … Read More

Climate Change Impact Assessment in Agriculture and Water Sectors Study

The project entails collecting and collating necessary information (geological, hydro-meteorological and physiographic data) in order to analyse the impacts of climate change and variability consequences, e.g. changes in precipitation and temperature on water and agricultural sectors, including runoff, irrigation, flooding, … Read More

RIMAX Guide – Risk Management In Extreme Flood Events

Development of a UNESCO risk management guide for extreme flood events including adaptation strategies for developing countries. The guide explains research projects conducted under RIMAX and shows adaptation strategies to use the research results in the context of the developing … Read More