The document presents an analytical framework for assessing climate vulnerability and resilience in Northern Nigerian states. It involves:
1. Analyzing the strength of regional resilience systems and adaptive capacity to reduce climate vulnerability of at-risk populations and infrastructure.
2. Establishing climate impact profiles and projections to identify vulnerable populations like cities and sectors like water and energy.
3. Assessing adaptive capacity of resilience systems including planning, institutions, and investments to strengthen response to emerging climate risks.
The document discusses a scoping study for a resilient Northern Nigeria conducted by DFID Nigeria. It aims to identify policy interventions to mitigate risks from climate change, population growth, and other trends. The study will develop climate scenarios and impact projections for Northern Nigeria. It will assess vulnerabilities in key infrastructure sectors and populations. Case studies will examine adaptive capacity and recommend measures to strengthen regional resilience planning, institutions, and investments in Northern Nigeria. The overall goal is to support DFID partners in Northern Nigeria facing complex climate vulnerabilities.
Toward a Sustainable Peace in the South China Seaatlanticcouncil
The South China Sea (SCS) has been, and remains, an area rife with tension. Disputes among SCS states stem from unresolved issues relating to sovereignty, exclusive economic zones, natural resources, and acceptable uses of the military. In the past two decades, fishing boats have been detained or damaged, fishermen and sailors arrested or killed, and artificial islands constructed for military purposes. These years of strife have led to the current SCS state of play: it is a vitally important region where competition is high and trust is low.
This issue brief argues that SCS countries need to work toward a "mutual confidence" and "mutual dependence" end state. In particular, the paper focuses on sharing meteorological data to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations, including search and rescue operations, foreign disaster relief goods delivery, and medical care. A mutual confidence/mutual dependence relationship between two SCS states would help mitigate regional conflicts or disputes, which in turn can help lead to a more peaceful region.
Country analysis explination updated 010108URRworkshop
The Regional Disaster Management Unit of the International Federation analyzed the disaster management capacity and vulnerability of 11 countries in Southeast Asia. They used 13 indicators across four categories - hazard risk, vulnerability, response capacity, and disaster risk reduction capacity. Each country was given a rating based on scores assigned to the 13 indicators. The analysis will help the Regional Disaster Management Unit plan its activities for 2008-2009 and identify opportunities for collaboration with other organizations to strengthen capacity and reduce disaster risk in the region.
This document lists descriptions of over 100 belts available for sale made of Indian buffalo leather. The belts vary in leather type (e.g. full grain, split), finishes (e.g. waxy crunch, oiled), widths ranging from 30 to 40mm, and colors. Techniques used include hand carving, weaving, printing, dip coloring, and embossing. Leathers listed include buffalo, cow, and combinations. The document promotes high quality, handcrafted leather belts for casual and formal wear.
Mr. Aashish Mishra has completed his deliverables as an individual contractor from March 15 to April 15 in a timely manner. His deliverables included in-depth research of the UN Development system and drafting inputs for papers on its functions, funding, organization, and governance. He also supported preparations for the ECOSOC Dialogue by developing programs, planning meetings, and liaising with advisors. Additionally, he drafted substantive inputs on funding trends, poverty indicators, core and non-core resources, and how to enhance transparency and accountability of UN development system funding.
The document discusses a scoping study for a resilient Northern Nigeria conducted by DFID Nigeria. It aims to identify policy interventions to mitigate risks from climate change, population growth, and other trends. The study will develop climate scenarios and impact projections for Northern Nigeria. It will assess vulnerabilities in key infrastructure sectors and populations. Case studies will examine adaptive capacity and recommend measures to strengthen regional resilience planning, institutions, and investments in Northern Nigeria. The overall goal is to support DFID partners in Northern Nigeria facing complex climate vulnerabilities.
Toward a Sustainable Peace in the South China Seaatlanticcouncil
The South China Sea (SCS) has been, and remains, an area rife with tension. Disputes among SCS states stem from unresolved issues relating to sovereignty, exclusive economic zones, natural resources, and acceptable uses of the military. In the past two decades, fishing boats have been detained or damaged, fishermen and sailors arrested or killed, and artificial islands constructed for military purposes. These years of strife have led to the current SCS state of play: it is a vitally important region where competition is high and trust is low.
This issue brief argues that SCS countries need to work toward a "mutual confidence" and "mutual dependence" end state. In particular, the paper focuses on sharing meteorological data to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations, including search and rescue operations, foreign disaster relief goods delivery, and medical care. A mutual confidence/mutual dependence relationship between two SCS states would help mitigate regional conflicts or disputes, which in turn can help lead to a more peaceful region.
Country analysis explination updated 010108URRworkshop
The Regional Disaster Management Unit of the International Federation analyzed the disaster management capacity and vulnerability of 11 countries in Southeast Asia. They used 13 indicators across four categories - hazard risk, vulnerability, response capacity, and disaster risk reduction capacity. Each country was given a rating based on scores assigned to the 13 indicators. The analysis will help the Regional Disaster Management Unit plan its activities for 2008-2009 and identify opportunities for collaboration with other organizations to strengthen capacity and reduce disaster risk in the region.
This document lists descriptions of over 100 belts available for sale made of Indian buffalo leather. The belts vary in leather type (e.g. full grain, split), finishes (e.g. waxy crunch, oiled), widths ranging from 30 to 40mm, and colors. Techniques used include hand carving, weaving, printing, dip coloring, and embossing. Leathers listed include buffalo, cow, and combinations. The document promotes high quality, handcrafted leather belts for casual and formal wear.
Mr. Aashish Mishra has completed his deliverables as an individual contractor from March 15 to April 15 in a timely manner. His deliverables included in-depth research of the UN Development system and drafting inputs for papers on its functions, funding, organization, and governance. He also supported preparations for the ECOSOC Dialogue by developing programs, planning meetings, and liaising with advisors. Additionally, he drafted substantive inputs on funding trends, poverty indicators, core and non-core resources, and how to enhance transparency and accountability of UN development system funding.
Integra es uno de los principales prestadores de educación parvularia en Chile, que entrega educación gratuita a través de una red de salas cuna y jardines infantiles presente en las 16 regiones del país. En 2015, Integra atendió a más de 77.000 niños y niñas con una planta de más de 20.000 trabajadores. El reporte describe el modelo educativo de Integra, las personas que educan y el desempeño económico de la institución durante el año 2015.
The document outlines the components and procedural constituents of a leadership training program, including resource management, goal setting, team exercises, workshops, and testing. The program aims to develop long-term leadership focus, effective resource use, capacity building, and identification of weak areas. Key skills covered include communication, collaboration, decision-making, conflict resolution, and team building. Exercises focus on decision-making, conflict handling, goal setting, and motivating employees.
El documento describe las fases del proceso tecnológico para desarrollar un proyecto, incluyendo la búsqueda de información, el diseño, la planificación, la construcción, la verificación y evaluación, y la divulgación. Explica cada fase en detalle, desde realizar bocetos y planos en el diseño hasta comprobar que el proyecto funcione correctamente y presentarlo a compañeros en la fase de divulgación.
Digitalization is more than just a technology shift and is transforming business models and customer engagement. It provides opportunities for low costs, fast scalability, and immersive experiences through technologies like sensors, smartphones, drones, and cognitive computing. However, only 30% of digital transformations succeed due to challenges in trust, processes, technology, KPIs, risk, and product-market fit. To succeed, companies must define their digital vision and end state, and develop digital IQ, EQ, and maturity through skills like design thinking, business thinking, digital technologies, finance, and risk management.
Presentación Eduardo Malisani en Jornadas Cable ATVC 2016Raul Malisani
Breve descripción de la actual situación de las empresas de cable en Argentina, las actuales y futuras demandas de servicios, el contexto internacional y algunas propuestas para poner en práctica
Este documento describe varios conceptos relacionados con la visibilidad en carreteras. Explica la distancia de visibilidad de paso como la distancia mínima necesaria para que un vehículo pueda rebasar a otro de forma segura. También define la distancia de frenado como la longitud requerida para detener un vehículo al detectar un obstáculo. Finalmente, incluye tablas con distancias mínimas de visibilidad según la velocidad y categoría de la carretera.
La burguesía se originó en la Edad Media como la clase social compuesta por comerciantes, artesanos y personas no sometidas al feudalismo que vivían en las ciudades. Se divide en alta, media y pequeña burguesía. Se caracteriza por poseer los medios de producción y establecer una relación de explotación con el proletariado para acumular capital. Jugó un papel clave en la caída del Antiguo Régimen e instauración del capitalismo, expresando ideales como la libertad e igualdad.
Origin Brand Consultants has extensive experience developing corporate, product, and service names across industries. They recognize that developing a brand identity that communicates the brand message while ensuring differentiation and clearing regulatory requirements can be challenging. Their proven naming process involves name generation, trademark screening, linguistic and cultural reviews, name validation testing, and additional safety testing for pharmaceutical names. They also offer brand design services including visual identity creation, guidelines, and packaging design. Additionally, Origin provides brand strategy and research services such as brand perception studies, competitor comparisons, and brand tracking to help clients understand brand positioning. Some of Origin's case studies include names and identities developed for Syngenta, Infineon, GSK, Shell, VW, and Procter &
This document discusses B2C marketing strategies for AIESEC in Spain, including positioning the Global Talent and Global Citizen programs and growing AIESEC membership. It provides data on website traffic and sign-ups for these programs from September 2014 to June 2015, showing growth over time. The main strategies were centralizing online channels and using an collaborative working style. Centralizing interfaces and optimizing key channels helped inspire, enable and visualize their experiences to increase conversions and leads for programs. AIESEC in Spain's website is the primary platform driving over 80% of applications.
DAFNE case study on the Zambezi river basinDAFNE project
1) The document describes the DAFNE project, which aims to develop a decision-analytic framework to explore the water-energy-food nexus in the Zambezi River Basin.
2) The framework will analyze and quantify trade-offs between sectors like hydropower production, irrigation, and conservation under different scenarios.
3) It will use integrated modeling of natural and socioeconomic factors, as well as stakeholder engagement, to identify and evaluate alternative development pathways for the basin.
ESCAP provides technical assistance and advisory services to countries in the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The document discusses ESCAP initiatives like establishing regional early warning systems, coordinating response efforts through the Regional Consultative Mechanism, and administering the Tsunami Trust Fund to build regional cooperation. It also provides examples of ESCAP's work providing post-disaster needs assessments and recommendations to mainstream DRR and CCA for recovery efforts in countries like Maldives and Cambodia.
This document summarizes a workshop on climate change adaptation and resilience building. It discusses scoping climate change impacts and assessing resource availability. It also covers needs assessments, stakeholders, and building resilience through monitoring. Preliminary steps include assessing vulnerabilities and means of resilience, as well as planning adaptive capacity. Possible policy suggestions include knowledge sharing, awareness activities, pilot projects, and determining support measures to ensure adaptive and resilient activities.
El Kharraz - Water Information SystemsLaura Haddad
This document discusses the role of water information systems in coping with water scarcity and drought in WANA countries. It argues that policy measures should utilize existing water data and indicators from information systems. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to address water scarcity issues considering social, economic, cultural, legal and institutional factors. Data availability and reliability are essential for water planning but often inadequate in WANA countries. The document recommends developing a water scarcity and drought information system for WANA based on existing country systems and data from other regional initiatives to improve decision making. It also discusses using indicators to assess and manage scarce water resources by comparing conditions to targets and relating environmental pressures to human activities.
El Kharraz - Water Information SystemsLaura Haddad
This document discusses the role of water information systems in coping with water scarcity and drought in WANA countries. It recommends that WANA countries improve their use of existing water information systems and data to help address water scarcity issues. A key gap is the lack of accessible and reliable water data in most WANA countries. The document advocates developing a water scarcity and drought monitoring system for the WANA region based on common indicators. It analyzes various hydrological and socioeconomic indicators used for assessing water scarcity and drought. Improving data collection, management and sharing between organizations and countries in the region is important for effective monitoring, prediction and response.
This document discusses the role of water information systems in coping with water scarcity and drought in WANA countries. It argues that policy measures should utilize existing water data and indicators from information systems. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to address water scarcity issues considering social, economic, cultural, legal and institutional factors. Data availability and reliability are essential for water planning but often inadequate in WANA countries. The document recommends developing a water scarcity and drought information system for WANA based on existing country systems and data from other regional initiatives to improve decision making. It also discusses using indicators to assess and manage scarce water resources by comparing conditions to targets and relating environmental pressures to human activities.
1. This document presents a thesis project plan to evaluate flood risk management in the Panjshir Sub-River Basin in Afghanistan.
2. The plan aims to create a flood risk map using GIS data to identify vulnerable areas and calculate factors like flow, height, slope, land use that impact floods.
3. The author recommends using both structural methods like dam and reservoir construction and non-structural methods like reforestation, early warning systems, and restricted development to manage floods in the basin.
This document presents a project on assessing flood vulnerability and mitigation strategies in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh using geospatial analysis. The objectives are to develop vulnerability factor maps, precise flood hazard maps, evaluate existing mitigation strategies, propose context-specific strategies, and provide policy recommendations. The methodology utilizes ArcGIS to analyze precipitation data, land use/cover maps, elevation data, slope maps, and drainage density maps. Results include the development of various factor maps. Further work is needed to complete the analysis and develop customized mitigation strategies.
Pilot tool: Spatial analysis for investment targeting ILRI
The document describes a spatial analysis tool being developed by the Technical Consortium to identify areas of high and low resilience to hazards in the Horn of Africa. The tool analyzes 165 indicators across social, economic, and ecological systems to develop composite indicators for each system. The tool then produces a summary table and map showing estimates of susceptibility, time to recover, and overall resilience for different administrative districts in the region. The results are intended to help target development investments to areas that would most build resilience.
Integra es uno de los principales prestadores de educación parvularia en Chile, que entrega educación gratuita a través de una red de salas cuna y jardines infantiles presente en las 16 regiones del país. En 2015, Integra atendió a más de 77.000 niños y niñas con una planta de más de 20.000 trabajadores. El reporte describe el modelo educativo de Integra, las personas que educan y el desempeño económico de la institución durante el año 2015.
The document outlines the components and procedural constituents of a leadership training program, including resource management, goal setting, team exercises, workshops, and testing. The program aims to develop long-term leadership focus, effective resource use, capacity building, and identification of weak areas. Key skills covered include communication, collaboration, decision-making, conflict resolution, and team building. Exercises focus on decision-making, conflict handling, goal setting, and motivating employees.
El documento describe las fases del proceso tecnológico para desarrollar un proyecto, incluyendo la búsqueda de información, el diseño, la planificación, la construcción, la verificación y evaluación, y la divulgación. Explica cada fase en detalle, desde realizar bocetos y planos en el diseño hasta comprobar que el proyecto funcione correctamente y presentarlo a compañeros en la fase de divulgación.
Digitalization is more than just a technology shift and is transforming business models and customer engagement. It provides opportunities for low costs, fast scalability, and immersive experiences through technologies like sensors, smartphones, drones, and cognitive computing. However, only 30% of digital transformations succeed due to challenges in trust, processes, technology, KPIs, risk, and product-market fit. To succeed, companies must define their digital vision and end state, and develop digital IQ, EQ, and maturity through skills like design thinking, business thinking, digital technologies, finance, and risk management.
Presentación Eduardo Malisani en Jornadas Cable ATVC 2016Raul Malisani
Breve descripción de la actual situación de las empresas de cable en Argentina, las actuales y futuras demandas de servicios, el contexto internacional y algunas propuestas para poner en práctica
Este documento describe varios conceptos relacionados con la visibilidad en carreteras. Explica la distancia de visibilidad de paso como la distancia mínima necesaria para que un vehículo pueda rebasar a otro de forma segura. También define la distancia de frenado como la longitud requerida para detener un vehículo al detectar un obstáculo. Finalmente, incluye tablas con distancias mínimas de visibilidad según la velocidad y categoría de la carretera.
La burguesía se originó en la Edad Media como la clase social compuesta por comerciantes, artesanos y personas no sometidas al feudalismo que vivían en las ciudades. Se divide en alta, media y pequeña burguesía. Se caracteriza por poseer los medios de producción y establecer una relación de explotación con el proletariado para acumular capital. Jugó un papel clave en la caída del Antiguo Régimen e instauración del capitalismo, expresando ideales como la libertad e igualdad.
Origin Brand Consultants has extensive experience developing corporate, product, and service names across industries. They recognize that developing a brand identity that communicates the brand message while ensuring differentiation and clearing regulatory requirements can be challenging. Their proven naming process involves name generation, trademark screening, linguistic and cultural reviews, name validation testing, and additional safety testing for pharmaceutical names. They also offer brand design services including visual identity creation, guidelines, and packaging design. Additionally, Origin provides brand strategy and research services such as brand perception studies, competitor comparisons, and brand tracking to help clients understand brand positioning. Some of Origin's case studies include names and identities developed for Syngenta, Infineon, GSK, Shell, VW, and Procter &
This document discusses B2C marketing strategies for AIESEC in Spain, including positioning the Global Talent and Global Citizen programs and growing AIESEC membership. It provides data on website traffic and sign-ups for these programs from September 2014 to June 2015, showing growth over time. The main strategies were centralizing online channels and using an collaborative working style. Centralizing interfaces and optimizing key channels helped inspire, enable and visualize their experiences to increase conversions and leads for programs. AIESEC in Spain's website is the primary platform driving over 80% of applications.
DAFNE case study on the Zambezi river basinDAFNE project
1) The document describes the DAFNE project, which aims to develop a decision-analytic framework to explore the water-energy-food nexus in the Zambezi River Basin.
2) The framework will analyze and quantify trade-offs between sectors like hydropower production, irrigation, and conservation under different scenarios.
3) It will use integrated modeling of natural and socioeconomic factors, as well as stakeholder engagement, to identify and evaluate alternative development pathways for the basin.
ESCAP provides technical assistance and advisory services to countries in the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The document discusses ESCAP initiatives like establishing regional early warning systems, coordinating response efforts through the Regional Consultative Mechanism, and administering the Tsunami Trust Fund to build regional cooperation. It also provides examples of ESCAP's work providing post-disaster needs assessments and recommendations to mainstream DRR and CCA for recovery efforts in countries like Maldives and Cambodia.
This document summarizes a workshop on climate change adaptation and resilience building. It discusses scoping climate change impacts and assessing resource availability. It also covers needs assessments, stakeholders, and building resilience through monitoring. Preliminary steps include assessing vulnerabilities and means of resilience, as well as planning adaptive capacity. Possible policy suggestions include knowledge sharing, awareness activities, pilot projects, and determining support measures to ensure adaptive and resilient activities.
El Kharraz - Water Information SystemsLaura Haddad
This document discusses the role of water information systems in coping with water scarcity and drought in WANA countries. It argues that policy measures should utilize existing water data and indicators from information systems. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to address water scarcity issues considering social, economic, cultural, legal and institutional factors. Data availability and reliability are essential for water planning but often inadequate in WANA countries. The document recommends developing a water scarcity and drought information system for WANA based on existing country systems and data from other regional initiatives to improve decision making. It also discusses using indicators to assess and manage scarce water resources by comparing conditions to targets and relating environmental pressures to human activities.
El Kharraz - Water Information SystemsLaura Haddad
This document discusses the role of water information systems in coping with water scarcity and drought in WANA countries. It recommends that WANA countries improve their use of existing water information systems and data to help address water scarcity issues. A key gap is the lack of accessible and reliable water data in most WANA countries. The document advocates developing a water scarcity and drought monitoring system for the WANA region based on common indicators. It analyzes various hydrological and socioeconomic indicators used for assessing water scarcity and drought. Improving data collection, management and sharing between organizations and countries in the region is important for effective monitoring, prediction and response.
This document discusses the role of water information systems in coping with water scarcity and drought in WANA countries. It argues that policy measures should utilize existing water data and indicators from information systems. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to address water scarcity issues considering social, economic, cultural, legal and institutional factors. Data availability and reliability are essential for water planning but often inadequate in WANA countries. The document recommends developing a water scarcity and drought information system for WANA based on existing country systems and data from other regional initiatives to improve decision making. It also discusses using indicators to assess and manage scarce water resources by comparing conditions to targets and relating environmental pressures to human activities.
1. This document presents a thesis project plan to evaluate flood risk management in the Panjshir Sub-River Basin in Afghanistan.
2. The plan aims to create a flood risk map using GIS data to identify vulnerable areas and calculate factors like flow, height, slope, land use that impact floods.
3. The author recommends using both structural methods like dam and reservoir construction and non-structural methods like reforestation, early warning systems, and restricted development to manage floods in the basin.
This document presents a project on assessing flood vulnerability and mitigation strategies in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh using geospatial analysis. The objectives are to develop vulnerability factor maps, precise flood hazard maps, evaluate existing mitigation strategies, propose context-specific strategies, and provide policy recommendations. The methodology utilizes ArcGIS to analyze precipitation data, land use/cover maps, elevation data, slope maps, and drainage density maps. Results include the development of various factor maps. Further work is needed to complete the analysis and develop customized mitigation strategies.
Pilot tool: Spatial analysis for investment targeting ILRI
The document describes a spatial analysis tool being developed by the Technical Consortium to identify areas of high and low resilience to hazards in the Horn of Africa. The tool analyzes 165 indicators across social, economic, and ecological systems to develop composite indicators for each system. The tool then produces a summary table and map showing estimates of susceptibility, time to recover, and overall resilience for different administrative districts in the region. The results are intended to help target development investments to areas that would most build resilience.
To provide the SANBI 18th National Biodiversity Planning Forum with:
Mainstreaming Strategic Water Source Areas: NSDF
NSDF relevant Outcome, Sub-Frame & National Spatial Action Areas (CCZ)
An update on the development of the NSDF
Way Forward
This document discusses Dr. Cody Knutson's research on drought vulnerability and planning in the North Central region of the United States. It summarizes several of his projects analyzing drought impacts through surveys and interviews of farmers, ranchers, and other stakeholders. It also discusses the development of decision support tools incorporating climate and crop models, as well as assessments of decadal climate variability and predictability in the Missouri River Basin. The document provides an overview of Dr. Knutson's work developing and applying methodologies for drought vulnerability assessment and planning across multiple sectors.
- The energy transition will substantially increase demand for certain critical minerals and metals that are essential to renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles. This increased demand may strain supply of these materials if not properly planned for.
- Critical materials supply will need to rapidly increase to meet projected demand by 2030 and 2050. However, strategies like increased extraction, material substitution, recycling and innovation could help avoid major supply challenges.
- The characteristics of individual critical materials vary greatly and should be considered separately, as potential solutions will differ in each case. Copper, rare earths, lithium, cobalt and nickel are some materials that will require special attention given their importance and potential supply constraints.
ADB,GWP and Water Security presented by Dr. Thomas Panella at GWP Network Me...Global Water Partnership
The document summarizes Dr. Thomas Panella's presentation on ADB's support for water security in Asia, addressing climate change impacts. It outlines ADB's regional convening role and technical and financing support through grants, loans, and partnerships. Examples provided include projects in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia that employ climate modeling and adaptation strategies to strengthen resilience of water sectors and promote integrated water resources management. The document discusses opportunities for deeper cooperation between ADB and GWP on mainstreaming water security in operations and projects.
The document provides information on a hazard risk and vulnerability atlas developed for Navi Mumbai, India. It was created as part of a project to enhance disaster risk reduction. The atlas contains flood, earthquake, fire, social vulnerability, and urban heat island exposure and risk maps. It integrates data from surveys, government departments, and risk models. The atlas is intended to help mainstream disaster risk reduction into development plans and aid emergency response through visual representation of risk.
This document provides a final report on a UN consultancy to support Fiji's institutional capacity for implementing and monitoring its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Key challenges identified include a lack of SDG data for Fiji and no formal process for approving a Sustainable Development Coordination Committee. The consultancy proposed workshops to share best practices and develop an action plan. Key recommendations are to standardize SDG reporting templates, formalize intergovernmental reporting mechanisms, leverage independent oversight, adopt digital solutions for SDG data, and develop a multi-stakeholder inclusion strategy. The workshops will help Fiji adapt learning to strengthen its "Whole of Government" SDG system and institutional effectiveness, accountability and inclusiveness. The outcome
PRESENTATION for UN DESA Water Energy SDGs Interlinkages Evaluation Report Ju...Aashish "Aash" Mishra
This evaluation report summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the Sustainable Water and Energy Solutions project. The evaluation assessed the project's approach, methodology, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability. Overall, the project was found to be highly relevant and effective in establishing partnerships, building capacity, and enhancing knowledge sharing. However, it faced some challenges with delays, integrating gender considerations, and clearly defining outcomes. The report provides recommendations on how future projects can improve planning, governance, resource mobilization and periodic evaluations to ensure goals are met. Continuing the partnership between UN DESA and Itaipu Binacional could leverage their respective expertise to further support sustainable development.
European Energy Centre, Galileo Master Certificate: Renewable Energy Manageme...Aashish "Aash" Mishra
European Energy Centre: Renewable Energy courses developed in line with the European Project EMTEU Energy Management Technician in Europe
Galileo Master Certificate
This is to certify that Aashish Mishra
has been awarded the Galileo Master Certificate on completion of the Renewable Energy Management and Finance course,
in May 2020
www.EUenergycentre.org
onlinelearning.theect.org
This document contains contact information for Aashish Mishra, including his email addresses aash.mishra@nyu.edu and ashmishra@aol.com, his UN Index of 10031967, and an date of April 2019.
Writing2 AMishra World Bank Policy Advisory Note: India - Maharashtra Housing...Aashish "Aash" Mishra
The document provides a summary and analysis of the Government of Maharashtra's "Draft State Housing Policy" from November 2006. It discusses the policy's goals of improving housing and tenure security for slum communities. It analyzes specific sections of the policy related to slum upgrading, redevelopment, and tenure reforms. It notes both positive aspects, such as improving infrastructure and housing quality, but also ambiguities around resettlement, tenure transfer models, and lack of individual home ownership options. It recommends alternative approaches that emphasize more equitable resettlement with improved compensation, as well as tenure models that provide individual home deeds and mortgages to support home ownership.
Mit MicroMasters Data Economics Development Policy Course certificateAashish "Aash" Mishra
This certificate verifies that Aashish Mishra successfully completed and passed the course "The Challenges of Global Poverty" offered through the Data, Economics, and Development Policy MicroMasters program by MIT and edX in December 2019. The certificate was issued and verified by Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, and Krishna Rajagopal, Dean for Digital Learning at MIT.
Aashish K. Mishra successfully completed and received a passing grade in the online course TOW001: Transforming Our World: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals offered by SDGAcademyX. The certificate was issued on August 18, 2019 by Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University, and verifies that Aashish K. Mishra met the requirements for the course related to achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Professional Work / Report Writing Sample: AMishra UNHabitat India Smart Citi...Aashish "Aash" Mishra
This document provides an outline for a study on financing resilient and green urban solutions in Bhubaneswar, India. It discusses the city's population growth, urbanization trends, and climate vulnerability. It also examines the city's current financing sources and needs for housing, infrastructure, and services. The study aims to assess opportunities for innovative financing mechanisms like India's Smart Cities Mission to promote sustainable development goals. It will analyze threats and opportunities in the region to provide lessons for urban development. The objective is to investigate green financing vehicles for Bhubaneswar's affordable housing and resilient infrastructure needs. The study will recommend scaling up government and international financing and incentives to support the city's ambitious vision through pooled funding and market-driven solutions.
1. The document analyzes data on UN operational activities for development (UN-OAD), official development assistance (ODA), and International Development Association (IDA) funding from 2010-2014.
2. It finds that low HDI countries receive the largest share of UN-OAD funding (57%) and IDA disbursements (60%), while very high HDI countries receive the smallest share (3% and 1% respectively).
3. Expenditures per capita are highest for low HDI countries ($8.82 average) and lowest for very high HDI countries ($0.48 average), with some outliers spending much more or less.
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) is coordinating a city level study in Bhubaneswar, India to identify investment needs for affordable housing, infrastructure, and urban services that address climate resilience and low-carbon development. UN-HABITAT has partnered with several development banks on the Global Initiative on Financing for Resilient and Green Urban Global Solutions (FRUGS) to assess financial needs for housing, infrastructure, and services in cities and identify projects for funding. A consultant has been hired to prepare the Bhubaneswar city study and recommend sustainable financial instruments and projects to advance resilient and green urban development. Support is requested from recipients to collaborate, share data and insights
1. The teacher, Aashish Mishra, led a practical SPSS regression analysis class that had 11 students. The class was structured around three sets of SPSS exercises that were divided into clear sections.
2. The students actively worked through the computer exercises and appeared to understand the techniques of regression analysis. The teacher provided assistance to students as they worked.
3. Suggestions for the teacher included more clearly separating individual/group interactions from full-class discussions, varying the pace by demonstrating exercises at the front, and providing a concluding summary.
The document provides details on the methodology, design, and institutional arrangements for tracking expenditures of two rural development programs - Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) and Mid-Day Meals - in the Indian states of Rajasthan and West Bengal. It describes the objectives and components of the programs, as well as the process of allocating and transferring funds from central and state governments to local implementing bodies at district, block, and village levels. The transfer mechanisms for cash and foodgrain components of the programs differ between the two sample states.
This document provides a review of national and state schemes for water and sanitation sector investment in India. It analyzes 17 centrally sponsored schemes related to water supply and sanitation. The review finds issues at both the national and state levels, including inefficient targeting of funds, an inefficient vehicle for fund transfers, poor monitoring and evaluation, and lack of alignment between central and state schemes. The document outlines key findings and recommendations to improve central sponsorship schemes for better service delivery outcomes.
The document provides a completion note for the Mumbai Urban Business Plan Phase II technical assistance project. Key points:
- The project provided advisory support to help Mumbai transform into a world-class city by addressing issues like congestion, scarce housing, and large slums.
- Over two phases, the assistance helped expand the plan's scope, clarify priorities, enhance consultation, and identify policy and investment needs.
- Outcomes included expanding decision-making bodies, increasing development limits, adopting new housing policies, and plans for infrastructure projects. However, proposed investment proposals were not implemented.
1. AMishra RNN Study Analytical Framework May 2014-7.htm
Aashish Mishra, NIAF Page 1 19-May-14
RNN Study Framework is the analytical construct for assessing the Northern
Nigerian (NN) States' potential vulnerabilities from and resilience to adverse impacts
from climate change scenarios, as determined by its 'adaptive capacity' to protect
diverse population and sectors from vulnerabilities to climate impacts. Climate
vulnerability and resilience are diametrically opposed and inter-related ends of the
climate impact continuum, and provide appropriate conceptual basis to utilise inverse
logic frameworks such as SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) to
determine Northern Nigerian States' most significant climate threats to population
and sector vulnerability. In turn such regional vulnerability risks provide logical
counter-response to overcome resilience system weaknesses in regional planning,
institutions and investments, which should typically adapt to emerging risks, faced by
vulnerable population and core sectors in responsive regional systems.
The study framework utilises "adaptive capacity assessment" as overarching case
study survey method to rapidly assess select NN States' strength of existing 'regional
resilience systems' for adaptation and resilience planning, institutions and investment
practices. RNN framework measures Northern Nigerian States' "adaptive capacity"
vis-à-vis responsiveness of prevailing resilience systems to dampen climate
vulnerability of at-risk population groups and protect critical infrastructure sector
investments. The RNN model supported through SWOT-level assessment captures
of NN regions' 'baseline resilience scenario' and thus its "adaptive capacity" to
dampen vulnerability. This 'baseline scenario' of adaptive capacity provides
comparative basis to generate further hypothesis regarding potential array of
strategic interventions to strengthen, for e.g., planning for agriculture production.
The RNN study design establishes regional climate profiles and projection models as
prima-facie identification of disparate NN States' vulnerable population
(agglomerations of urban ands rural areas) and core sectors (water, power,
transport, regional and urban infrastructure) at-risk. Case study method is then
utilised to investigate regional vulnerability and "adaptive capacity" vis-à-vis rural and
urban settlements and built-up assets, water and power networks and transportation
linkages; and assessed through integrated case study analysis regarding on-ground
workability for potential medium-term NN resilience development interventions.
Finally, the expected outcomes of the RNN study include better supporting DFID
and NN States in SWOT assessment for regional climate proofing infrastructure
development and investments; supporting regional development infrastructure
strategy through analysis of bankable infrastructure project design, sector
integration, financing options; and finally, informing DFID’s medium-term NN aid
strategy through study recommendations for unlocking regional climate proofing
infrastructure strategies, and furthermore highlight tremendous scope for NN's
socio-economic diversification through, for e.g., resilience systems responding to
shifts in urban-rural productivity by more strategic regional development investment.
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1 RNN Study Analytical Framework
1.1
Field based assessment in Northern Nigeria (NN) States analyses strength of select states'
"Regional Resilience Systems" and thereby its "Adaptive Capacity" for dampening climate
vulnerability of at-risk population groups and critical infrastructure sector investments.
2 NN Climate Scenarios
2.1 Climate Impact Profile
2.1.1 Environmental Triggers
2.1.2 Climate Variability
2.1.3 Ecological Changes
2.1.4 Socio-economic Factors
2.2 Climate Impact Projections
2.2.1 Historic Events
2.2.2 Baseline Conditions
2.2.3 Projected Effects
3 NN Climate Vulnerability
3.1 Typology of Population At-Risk
3.1.1 Emerging City-Regions
3.1.2 State Capital Networks
3.1.3 Regional Growth Corridors
3.1.4 Rural Agglomerations
3.2 Sector Infrastructure At-risk
3.2.1 Cilmate Proofing Infrastructure
3.2.2 Water and Energy Resources
3.2.3 Transportation Networks
3.2.4 Regional & Urban Development
4
Climate Adaptive Capacity Assessment for Regional
Resilence Systems
5 NN Climate Resilience Systems
5.1 Resilience Planning
5.1.1 Land use and settlement planning
5.1.2 Resilient settlements & built-up structures
5.1.3 Water and energy resource management
5.1.4 Rural and urban productivity improvement
5.2 Resilience Institutions
5.2.1 Climate impact mapping & early warning systems
5.2.2 Regional emissions & environmental regulation
5.2.3 Regional climate risk pooling & insurance market
5.3 Resilience Investment
5.3.1 Climate risk adaptation and resilience investment loans
5.3.2 Resilient infrastructure bankabiity and private-sector financing
5.3.3 Rural & urban resilience investment credit facilities and co-financing
5.3.4 Intergovernmental and performance-based infrastructure subsidies
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Data from RNN Framework
1. RNN
Study
Analytical
Framework
1. Field
based
assessment
in
Northern
Nigeria
(NN)
States
analyses
strength
of
select
states'
"Regional
Resilience
Systems"
and
thereby
it's
"Adaptive
Capacity"
for
dampening
climate
vulnerability
of
at-‐risk
population
groups
and
critical
infrastructure
sector
investments.
2. NN
Climate
Scenarios
1. Climate
Impact
Profile
1. Environmental
Triggers
2. Climate
Variability
3. Ecological
Changes
4. Socio-‐economic
Factors
2. Climate
Impact
Projections
1. Historic
Events
2. Baseline
Conditions
3. Projected
Effects
3. NN
Climate
Vulnerability
1. Typology
of
Population
At-‐Risk
1. Emerging
City-‐Regions
1. Kano
Metropolitan
Area
2. Kaduna
City-‐Region
3. Sokoto
City-‐Region
2. State
Capital
Networks
1. Rural-‐urban
scale
economies
2. Rural
industries
in
Capital
Regions
3. Inter-‐State
Capital
Corridors
3. Regional
Growth
Corridors
1. Trade-‐Markets-‐Industrial
Networks
2. Railway,
Highway
and
Road
Networks
3. Regional
&
International
Crossing
Boundaries
4. Pipeline-‐Powerline
Networks
to
towns
and
cities
4. Rural
Agglomerations
1. Shared
natural
resources
or
geography
clusters
2. Historic
or
current
markets
and
trading
clusters
3. Ethnic,
nomadic
and
local
clusters
2. Sector
Infrastructure
At-‐risk
1. Climate
Proofing
Infrastructure
1. River/Lake/Reservoir
Barriers
2. Emergency
Services
3. Dam
&
Reservoir
4. Storm
Water
Drainage
5. Solid
Waste
Mgt.
6. GHG
7. At-‐Risk
Settlements
2. Water
and
Energy
Resources
1. State
Water
and
Power
Provision
2. Informal
Water
and
Power
Markets
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3. Agriculture-‐Water-‐Energy
Linkages
4. Rainwater,
Wastewater
and
Ground-‐water
Harvesting
5. Renewable
Energy
6. Agricultural/Industrial
Consumption
3. Transportation
Networks
1. National
Highways
2. Rural
Road
Networks
3. Intra-‐
Regional
and
4. National
Railways
5. International
and
Domestic
Borders
6. Regional
airports
and
4. Regional
&
Urban
Development
1. Human
Settlement
Infrastructure
2. Storm
Drainage
and
Solid
Waste
Mgt.
3. Farming
&
Pastoral
Activities
4. Rural
&
Urban
Agriculture
5. Land-‐Water-‐Energy
Linkages
6. Essential
Trunk
Infrastructure
4. Climate
Adaptive
Capacity
Assessment
for
Regional
Resilience
Systems
5. NN
Climate
Resilience
Systems
1. Resilience
Planning
1. Land
use
and
settlement
planning
2. Resilient
settlements
&
built-‐up
structures
3. Water
and
energy
resource
management
4. Rural
and
urban
productivity
improvement
2. Resilience
Institutions
1. Climate
impact
mapping
&
early
warning
systems
2. Regional
emissions
&
environmental
regulation
3. Regional
climate
risk
pooling
&
insurance
market
3. Resilience
Investment
1. Climate
risk
adaptation
and
resilience
investment
loans
2. Resilient
infrastructure
bankability
and
private-‐sector
financing
3. Rural
&
urban
resilience
investment
credit
facilities
and
co-‐
financing
4. Intergovernmental
and
performance-‐based
infrastructure
subsidies
Model: AMishra Final RNN Study Analytical Framework6.html