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UNDP Briefing Kit: Early Warning, Preparedness, Anticipation

Ioana Creitaru @UNDP • 16 March 2023
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UNDP Service Offer on Climate and Disaster Early Warning and Preparedness

Early warning and preparedness are central to UNDP’s vision of building resilience to shocks and crises. To date, the organization has provided improved access to early warnings for over 13 million people, thus protecting lives, securing livelihoods and safeguarding development gains. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to strengthen international cooperation, coordination and solidarity to improve preparedness efforts. UNDP’s service offer for climate and disaster early warning and preparedness outlines the efforts and capabilities deployed by the organization to build a holistic multidimensional understanding of early warning, early action and preparedness.

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UNDP Preparedness Toolkit: An interactive platform to be better prepared for uncertainty, risk and crisis

The Toolkit is an enabler for UNDP to support countries to enhance their institutional, strategic, and operational capabilities for preparedness and anticipatory action, improve the speed and efficiency of UNDP’s programmatic solutions, and apply foresight to inform its development work, including in crisis settings. The Toolkit serves as a programmatic manual for Country Offices to design projects and programmes related to preparedness and anticipatory action in support of national and local priorities.

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UNDP Preparedness Learning Pathway: Learning, community, and action to better anticipate uncertainty, risk and crisis

The Anticipation Academy aims to leverage UNDP’s Crisis Academy model for multistakeholder learning opportunities that foster co-creation of pragmatic, scalable and smart solutions that help countries, communities and organizations better anticipate and prepare for multiple futures – including futures that may be ridden with risks and crises.

 

Gaming for Preparedness: Developing an immersive experience of preparedness through serious gaming

UNDP and IOM are joining forces to harness the power of serious gaming as an innovative and effective way to engage audiences in understanding, preparing for, and responding to a range of risks and crises. The design and experimentation of using serious gaming for preparedness is part of the rollout of the two respective toolkits internally for each organization, as well as for future capacity building services that UNDP and IOM may conduct jointly.

 

Getting Ahead of the Crisis Curve: UNDP's Approach to Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Preparedness

The UNDP Practice Note on Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Preparedness pushes for a proactive shift from reactive crisis response to preventive action, emphasizing the understanding of disaster risk as an interplay of hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and capacity. It offers guidance on integrating early warning and preparedness into development agendas and provides practical principles and enablers for effective implementation around early warning and preparedness initiatives.

Link: UNDP Practice Note

 

Choosing Your Tomorrows: Using Foresight and Anticipatory Governance to Explore Multiple Futures in Support of Risk-Informed Development

The future is full of complex uncertainty and unknown risk; with this in mind, how we can achieve meaningful, sustainable development which is not undermined by crises? Foresight and the concept of working with alternative futures grants policymakers and decision-makers the ability to become anticipatory and to support both risk-informed and forward-looking development. By embracing foresight as a key component of the risk-informed development process, we can foster governance processes that are genuinely risk-conscientious and ready to take on the challenges of our different tomorrows.

Link: Choosing Your Tomorrows: Using Foresight and Anticipatory Governance to Explore Multiple Futures in Support of Risk-Informed Development

 

Frontier Technology Radar for Disaster Risk Reduction

The Frontier Technology Radar for Disaster Risk Reduction allows for the systematic tracking and understanding of frontier technologies as they are developed. The Radar categorizes technological solutions according to their technology type, disaster/crisis type and maturity level. The Radar aims to highlight the potential of technological solutions in disaster contexts to those working in the fields of risk reduction, response and recovery. It supports development stakeholders to navigate the variety of existing and emerging technologies and their possible use cases.

Link: Frontier Technology Radar for Disaster Risk Reduction

 

Get Airports Ready for Disasters (GARD)

Get Airports Ready for Disaster (GARD) is a public-private partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Deutsche Post DHL and Airports Council International (ACI) that addresses the need for enhanced preparedness and response capacity of airports in disaster situations. GARD helps airports and disaster managers conduct an assessment of airport capability to manage the influx of humanitarian aid and personnel in disaster response situations and develop an action plan to increase the response capacity in case of disaster and to guide response operations at the airport.

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GARD Programme Brochure

 

Risk Scenario Building Tools to Support Anticipatory Action for Long-Term, Complex Development Challenges

Current approaches to global threat and risk management within development often fail to understand emerging complex risks and trends. Risk management actors need to be able to understand correlations in the data so that this information can be harnessed to understand trends, relationships, and ripples across the development perspective, and related to possible futures and crisis impacts. This UNDP Project Concept Note outlines the parameters of a groundbreaking risk scenario building tool in support of anticipatory action for long-term, complex development challenges.

Link: Project Concept Note

 

Technology Readiness: Tools to Guide Technological Innovation for Early Warning and Preparedness

We stand at the dawn of a new era, one in which the 4th industrial revolution (4IR) takes hold and transforms every aspect of our lives. A key element of 4IR is the speed, breadth, and depth at which technology is advancing. This change has no historical precedent and continues to evolve at an exponential rate. It is understood the 4IR is driven by a fusion of fast-paced advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, genetic engineering, quantum computing, and other technologies. If applied responsibly, the technologies which evolve out of the 4IR will have tremendous potential to be used for public good by harnessing the power of real-time and predictive analytics for smarter decision making, anticipatory approaches to managing risk, and new ways to measure social impact. This UNDP Project Concept Note outlines a design process that facilitates an improved understanding of country readiness to implement technological solutions for early warning and preparedness through targeted assessment tools.

Link: Project Concept Note

 

Ethical Data Management for Early Warning and Preparedness

Early warning and preparedness work is growing ever more reliant on the use of different datasets. Yet, time and time again, we see cases where the data intended to do good for the most vulnerable can be exploited, used to abuse rights, or even do harm. UNDP and its partners need to have a clear understanding of these risks and how to best navigate the ethical considerations of data. Clear tools, guidance, and a set of minimum standards for ensuring ethical data management are a must to build truly people-centered early warning and preparedness systems. This UNDP Project Concept Note takes a critical look at the common data used to inform early warning and preparedness systems, and risk-informed development more widely. Then building upon this, it explores how such data could be assessed, stored, and used ethically to achieve the greatest value.

Link: Project Concept Note

 

Strengthening Disaster Preparedness and Anticipatory Capacities in West and Central Africa

Every year West and Central Africa countries are significantly affected by disasters (such as droughts, floods, food insecurity, epidemics, etc.), as a result the combination of their low adaptive capacity to climate change with specific socio-economic and eco-climatic conditions. Exacerbated by poverty, weak risk governance, political and social instability, these disasters contribute to undermining development gains and human security in the region. The proposed project will address these challenges through enhancing the capacity of States to be better prepared to respond to disasters leading to an enhanced effectiveness in disaster response, crisis management and recovery processes that mitigate the impact of disasters at national and local levels.

Link: Project Concept Note

 

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