The programme promotes actions at the local level to enhance the resilience of vulnerable urban communities to climate related threats and natural hazards within Mauritania and Tunisia 24046
Enhancing Community Resilience and Human Security of Vulnerable Communities in Urban Settings through the Implementation of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Duration: September 2016– December 2019
Budget: US$1,904,274 (UNTFHS: $1,047,774; Pooled Funding: $856,500)
Implementing Agencies: UNISDR(Lead), UNDP
The programme helps to develop the capacities of local governments and institutions to mitigate disaster-related insecurities in 10 urban communities living in vulnerable conditions in Mauritania and Tunisia. Backed with evidence from disaster resilience assessments, the programme focuses on: (i) establishing risk sensitive action plans that take into account social, environmental, political, health and economic risks as highlighted through a people-centered human security lens; and (ii) localizing disaster risk reduction efforts through innovative partnerships that place communities and their survival, livelihood and dignity – i.e., their human security – as central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
KEY MATERIALS
Events Page
Mauritania News Story “How the Sendai Framework and the Application of the Human Security Approach Are Helping to Reduce Disaster Risks in Mauritanian Cities”
Programme Factsheet “ Enhancing Community Resilience and Human Security of Vulnerable Communities in 5 Tunisian cities” (FR)