Capacity Building of Trainers – Key findings of the Joint SDG Fund Project in Maldives and the use of ESCAP's Risk and Resilience Portal

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. In addition, ESCAP, through the Risk and Resilient Portal, provides users with access to the Maldives' Landuse/ Land Cover maps, climate projections, population distributions, and more to assist local councils in implementing island-level disaster management plans and vulnerability assessments. This event will dive deeper into the key findings of this project and their implications for Maldives. In addition, the session will follow with a small capacity-building session for NDMA colleagues to enhance their knowledge as trainers to train the other stakeholders in the use of this data.