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HAZARD

  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NEEDS

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Address the absence of draft regulations by developing and implementing regulations that aim to prevent projects or development activities that contribute to heightened vulnerability

Leverage the expertise and resources of the Santiago Network to support the development of risk management tools

  • Financial Management and Disaster Risk Assurance in the Dominican Republic, MEPyD and the World Bank Group-2015.
  • National Adaptation Plan to Climate Change of RD 2015-2030 (update of PANA RD, 2008).
  • Third National Communication of the Dominican Republic (TCNCC-RD) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Sectorial Analysis of Vulnerability and Adaptation Measures to Climate Change Tourism Sector (2015).
  • Strategic Plan for Climate Change (PECC), 2011-2014.
  • Map of Poverty in the Dominican Republic, 2014.
  • National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector of the Dominican Republic (2014).
  • The National Plan for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (2011).
  • The Household Environmental Vulnerability Index - IVAM- (2014).
  • Critical points for vulnerability to variability and climate change in the Dominican Republic and its adaptation to it (2013) (USAID / TNC / IDDI / PLENITUD).
  • Environmental Security in the Dominican Republic: Promise or Peril? (FESS / USAID, 2015.
  • Review of the State of the Climate Risk Situation and its Management in the Dominican Republic (2011).
  • National Plan for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management.
  • National Emergency Plan.
  • National Plan for the Reduction of Seismic Risk.
  • National Policy on Climate Change 2016.
  • National Training Plan in Disaster Risk Management for the Republic.
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  • National contingency plan for hydrometeorological phenomena.
  • National Plan for Food Security and Sovereignty.
  • Strategic Plan for Environmental and Risk Management in Schools by 2020.
  • INAPA Emergency Plan.
  • Adaptive Social Protection Strategy.
  • National Risk Communication Strategy for Health Emergencies and Disasters.   

Preemptive adaptation:

  • National Adaptation Plan to Climate Change of RD 2015-2030 (update of PANA RD, 2008).

Contingency measures, e.g. through risk financing with regional risk pooling, insurance facilities and bonds, and through social protection measures, etc.:

  • Contingency plans for different threats (hurricanes, earthquakes ...). 

Addressing losses through disaster relief funds, credit facilities etc.:

  • Contingent credit line for US300 million-IDB.

  • Contingent credit line for US150 million -BM.  

Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:

  • Planning instruments for disaster risk reduction (National DRR Plan, National Plan for seismic risk reduction, institutional DRR plans in different institutions of the National Prevention, Mitigation and Response System, Municipal DRR Plans ... among others).

  • Instrumentation of platforms and technological tools to facilitate the evaluation of the vulnerability of buildings.

  • Commissioning of the Post-disaster Loss and Damage Assessment System (SIRED-RD). 

Transformative actions (which could include any such actions already mentioned above):

  • Adoption of the SIRED-RD as an official tool for quantifying damage to essential infrastructure.

  • Establishment of disaster risk management as a transversal axis of development planning.  

Collection and management of data and information (including databases, spatial data, systematic observations, establishing baselines, etc):

  • Setting up a registry/Mapping of at-risk populations to assess sea-level rise induced relocation costs for coastal communities.

Analyses of data and information (including climate change projections, impact analyses, hazard mapping, etc):

  • Development of local to national climate change scenarios and production of projections of climate risk.

  • Conduct of pilot loss and damage assessments for certain key agricultural commodities, which are vulnerable to climate change, such as rice, aquaculture, and fruits.

  • Quantitative assessment of risk for important systems to inform decision-making, in particular, selection of risk management approaches.

  • Development of standardized set of risk assessment guidelines for community/subnational level to prepare and maintain inventories of at-risk assets.

Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:

  • Development of alternative livelihood programs, livelihood transformation programs, and vocational training for coastal communities and other at-risk population groups.

  • Development of infrastructure and plans for relocation/resettlement of households and communities from frequently affected areas.

  • Design of proposals and access to financing for climate information services and early warning systems under the GCF and other funding channels.

Financial instruments (such as insurance, risk pooling, contingency funds, etc):

  • Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.

  • Design of national trust/contingency/recovery funds.

  • Development of national finance instruments (bonds, etc).

  • Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.

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