Asia and the Pacific region is experiencing some of the greatest threats of climate change-induced disasters. Immediate collaborative action is required to prevent and respond to disaster risks before climate resilience becomes unfeasible.
In this respect, the Maldives, as a low-lying island nation, is among the most vulnerable countries in the world. Maldives is regularly exposed to hydro-meteorological hazards such as drought, storms, monsoonal heavy rain and related floods, cyclones, and storm swells. Maldives has the lowest terrain in the world, with more than 80% of its islands less than 1 m above the mean sea level.
ESCAP and UNDP are jointly implementing a two-year (2022-2023) SDG-funded project to strengthen the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation with the national and sub-national development planning to ensure better achievement of SDG and Agenda 2030 in the Maldives. Under this project, ESCAP has developed an updated risk profile of Maldives based on high-resolution climate projection information and geospatial techniques to assist the stakeholders in making data-driven decisions in their development planning.
ESCAP, through the Risk and Resilient Portal, provides the users with access to the landuse/ landcover maps of the Maldives, climate projections, population distributions, and more to assist local councils in implementing island-level disaster management plans and vulnerability assessments. ESCAP, in collaboration with Maldives National University (MNU), has organized this workshop to enhance the subnational capacity such as local/atolls councils to use the risk and resilient portal, ensuring that the local councils are well-equipped to use and apply the developed database and tools in their landuse/development planning.
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