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Over the past decade more than 1.5 billion people have been affected by disasters that have cost at least US$ 1.3 trillion. Climate change, weak governance, and an increasing concentration of people and assets in areas exposed to natural hazards are driving disaster risk upwards, especially in poor and fragile countries. UNDP’s support to countries on climate change and disaster resilience is shaped by three important global agreements: the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
UNDP works with countries to help them reduce greenhouse gases and advance a long-term goal of risk-informed zero-carbon development. At the same time, we work together with partners to adapt to the impacts of climate change, enhance access to clean energy, reduce the risk of disasters and, where needed, support resilient disaster recovery. Taken all together, these efforts are the path towards sustainable development that is risk-informed, zero-carbon and resilient.
UNDP’s work integrates issues of climate, disaster risk and energy at the country level, focusing on resilience building and ensuring development remains risk-informed and sustainable. To do this we assist governments in systematically and comprehensively delivering on risk-informed development through the communication, reduction and management of risk.
To support the achievement of UNDP’s strategic plan outcomes, as well as global agendas i.e. Paris Agreement on Climate Change, Sendai Framework of Actions for DRR and the sustainable development goals, the UNDP Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction team (CDT), under the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) focuses on four thematic areas:
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Climate Change
- Disaster Recovery
- Sustainable Energy
To support these CDT thematic areas, the CDT partnership team posted in Geneva works more specifically on initiatives and programmes focused on partnership engagement and global knowledge management. Two interns are required to work on some of the diverse work of the team.
A first position is to support some of the key programmes being implemented out of Geneva around risk and preparedness:
- Get Airport Ready for Disasters (GARD); a public-private partnership in collaboration with Deutsche Post-DHL;
- UNDP-DRR and Climate Risk Management Portfolio Management; this tool aims at covering all UNDP-funded projects worldwide in the areas of DRR, climate and energy, and serves as a base to analyze trends, financial expenditures, involvement in sub-sectors, and extract key results at country level;
- Reference group on Risk, Early Warning and Preparedness; this is an IASC sub body group. The Group seeks to enhance preparedness to respond of the IASC system and, leveraging capability developed for this outcome, to develop preparedness of national and local actors. The work of the Group is primarily related to IASC WG Priority 1 – Effective Response to Emergencies and Protracted Crises -, although the Group supports other Priorities, in particular preparedness elements of the IASC priority on Financing.
Secondly, an intern position is required to work with the team on a range of private sector and insurance for development work including:
- Several new and high-profile platforms for private sector financing of climate action at the country level;
- Our growing work in the insurance sector, which includes work on micro-insurance, natural capital insurance and investmetns;
- Supporting work on a developing portfolio of private sector work, especially around climate investments;
- Additionally, aspects of our resource mobilization work, including communications, will be a part of the function.
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