The Resident Coordinator of the UN in Sri Lanka and the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme, Ms. Una McCauley, officially announced to the President Maithripala Sirisena, the commencement of the new USD 38.18 million project under the UN Green Climate Fund. This...
“Sustainable development – these are two words that the existence of all (the) human race depends on. It (climate change) is becoming a calamity that we have to turn our attention to,” Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena told the 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum, hosted...
The International Water Management Institute(IWMI), a member of the Consultative Group onInternational Agricultural Research (CGIAR), hasreleased a brief examining water management in SriLanka and identifying climate change as a possibleexacerbating factor. The paper relates that demandfor water may outstrip supply in the Dry Zone of Sri...
“There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”– Stephen King, Different Seasons Disaster preparedness – what do you need to know? Are you ready? Disasters concern all of us, in terms of people impacted and economic losses accounted. The...
“There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”– Stephen King,Different Seasons Disaster preparedness – what do you need to know? Are you ready? Disasters concern all of us, in terms of people impacted and economic losses accounted. The...
UNEP helps countries and their National Implementing Entities (NIEs) in Asia Pacific towards accreditation and development of projects for the Adaptation Fund. This support programme was developed in response to the slow progress of NIE accreditation in the Asia and the Pacific region. It was...
The Ministry of Disaster Management together with the World Bank launches a Climate Resilient Program today. The program is launched at the three day Disaster Management Conference at the BMICH in Colombo titled “the Future we want – a Safer Sri Lanka”. Since the catastrophic Tsunami, Sri...
"It's All About Making The Right Choices At The Right Time" WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? In a world where both natural and man-made disasters are affecting us with alarming frequency, the concepts of disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are top of the...
Win-win Relations, Recognition & Resource mobilisation WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? As donors are diminishing their funding, NGOs need to find alternative ways of generating support from their external environment in order to increase their influence and to sustain themselves. Communication technologies and our rapidly...
Its no longer about ‘doing good’, its about creating lasting positive change WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? The global development community has been paying increased attention to the role of rigorous impact evaluation in recent years. This course is a considered blend of theory and...