Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga Keywords resilience urban poor Urban Development climate change climate change and disaster risk reduction Read more about Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga or Toni is the President of the National Resilience Council (NRC), a science and technology-based public-private partnership aimed at the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Climate Agreement. She is a member of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNDRR) Global Science and Technology Advisory Group (GSTAG) and Asia Pacific Science Technology Academia Advisory Group (AP-STAAG).
Gopalakrishna Bhat Keywords resilience urban poor Urban Development climate change climate change and disaster risk reduction Read more about Gopalakrishna Bhat Gopalakrishna Bhat is a hydrogeologist. He started his career as a geologist in Ladakh Projects of Geological Survey of India. For over three decades, he has worked on diverse issues including risk assessment, urban climate change resilience, and traditional water technologies such as Qanats & Surangams. His interests include increasing resource autonomy through community-managed water-energy-biomass systems in transforming environments.
S. M. Nazrul Islam Keywords resilience urban poor Urban Development climate change climate change and disaster risk reduction Read more about S. M. Nazrul Islam S.M. Nazrul Islam has been working for about 30 years at different levels in the Local Government Engineering Department in Bangladesh, dealing with the improvement of livelihood, living conditions, and communication for the people/communities especially poor and women through interventions of infrastructures with institutional capacity and community development in urban, rural, and small-scale water sectors.
Climate and Disaster Resilience at the City Level Recording Read more about Climate and Disaster Resilience at the City Level Recording City-level resilience towards climate and disaster-related risks requires a suite of interventions embedded within wider processes of sustainable urban development. This includes risk-sensitive land use management processes, resilient infrastructure that provides equitable access to the urban poor, improved early warning systems and disaster preparedness, and strengthened financial preparedness to deal with disasters.
Presentation: Using Climate and Disaster Risk Information for Designing Pro-poor Community Infrastructure Read more about Presentation: Using Climate and Disaster Risk Information for Designing Pro-poor Community Infrastructure
Using Climate and Disaster Risk Information for Designing Pro-Poor Investments in Community Infrastructure Recording Read more about Using Climate and Disaster Risk Information for Designing Pro-Poor Investments in Community Infrastructure Recording The urban poor often lives where they can afford to such as in informal settlements, which are often non-compliant with planning and building regulations and lack community infrastructure for essential services. Factors such as rapid urbanization and limited land space continue to drive informal construction of housing in cities in high-risk areas. Precarious living conditions exacerbate their vulnerability to climate and disaster risks such as extreme heat, droughts, flooding, cyclones, storm surge, and sea-level rise.
Community Resilience Partnership Program (Gender Window) Read more about Community Resilience Partnership Program (Gender Window)
Alexander Fowler Keywords resilience urban poor Urban Development climate change disaster risk reduction pro-poor policies and investments Read more about Alexander Fowler Alexander Fowler has been working in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation since completing his undergraduate degree in Disaster Management in 2011. He has worked on resilience building projects in Lao PDR, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka with a specific focus on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into development planning processes.
Operationalizing the ‘Gender Window’ of the Community Resilience Partnership Program Recording Read more about Operationalizing the ‘Gender Window’ of the Community Resilience Partnership Program Recording ADB has recently approved its Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) to support countries and communities to scale up investments in climate adaptation at the community level, especially investments that address the nexus between climate change, poverty, and gender. The CRPP will be operationalized through a trust fund which will include a dedicated gender window to promote women-focused investments in resilience.