The development of adaptive forms of governance and innovative adaptation strategies and activities to increase the resilience of communities and economies is fundamental for improving water governance at all levels. Strengthening the planning, legal and management frameworks for adaptive water management, and creating or reinforcing...
Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), the Southeast Asian node of APAN, is organizing a training in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from September 20 to 21. This training aims to improve the capacity of national and local authorities for mainstreaming climate change adaptation in development planning by:...
This scientific meeting will be held at SEARCA, College, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, from November 21 to 22, followed by a one-day field trip within the Southern Tagalog Region on November 23. The event is being co-organized by the University of the Philippines Los Baños...
The symposium aims to clear some of the uncertainty surrounding the action and methods for building resilience by bringing together practitioners, who are testing new methods and taking action in the field with significant projects. It will focus on innovations in practice that advance transformation...
Planning and Samurdhi staff representing all 25 districts of the country, and supported by more than 15 sector agencies, participated in an innovative two-day workshop at the Mount Lavinia Hotel in Colombo from June 28 to 29. The focus of the consultative workshop was on...
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) held a training session on gender and climate change for Fiji officers from government ministries and NGOs. It aimed at strengthening participants’ understanding of the gender analysis approach so that they could apply it in the context of...
As a follow-up to the recently conducted Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity Assessment (VACA) survey, the SeaGate Institute of Technology held a training workshop from June 6 to 8 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop focused on the statistical software package STATA-12 for experts from the Himalayan...
The Lao Institute for Renewable Energy (LIRE) represented Laos at the workshop on “Engaging with Asia-Pacific on Climate Change” in Brussels on June 4. It was attended by officials from the Asia-Pacific embassies and EU as well as member state representatives, and a number of...
The 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) will focus on ‘Integrative Risk Management in a Changing World’ to help bridge the gap in problem solving between the causes of problems governance, and technology. It will address the Integrative Risk Management Approach within the context...
Global leaders, practitioners, scientists, civil society and the private sector will demonstrate early action on climate-smart agriculture as a driver for green growth during a global conference, which will be held at Hanoi, Vietnam, in September. The second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and...