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ZURICH FLOOD RESILIENCE ALLIANCE - Indonesia, Jordan, Nepal, Bangladesh CONTEXT

1 Sep 2021

At this critical juncture to tackle the global climate crisis, the Zurich Alliance seeks to use evidence and learning from practical experiences in our countries of operation to demonstrate adaptation and risk mitigation solutions that can be scaled and replicated globally and to influence how actions are planned, financed and implemented. [...] Mercy Corps will: Advocate to governments and donors to Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone increase more targeted funding to proven countries in the world, with nearly 300 significant resilience approaches and explore innovative weather-related disasters annually in the past 30 financing mechanisms to fund climate years. [...] The compound impacts of land SOCIAL COHESION OF REFUGEE AND HOST subsidence and climate change will lead to 90 COMMUNITIES percent of Pekalongan City and a majority of the Pekalongan Regency’s coastal area being underwater by 2035. [...] Our study convinced key stakeholders of the need to consider climate risk and vulnerability in Despite being one of the most water-scarce development planning and to invest in countries in the world, floods are a common comprehensive water resource management. [...] Following - Practical Action and International Federation of the surge of COVID cases in May 2020, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, as well program provided hygiene and sanitation supply as Mercy Corps’ Managing Risks through support to communities and local governments to .

Authors

Yoko Okura

Pages
5
Published in
United States of America