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Updated on 30 January 2024

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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NEEDS

Suriname

 

Floods

Evacuation plans

Strengthen evacuation plans and public services, with a particular focus on health services, to ensure efficient and effective response during emergencies.

Joint collaboration between neighboring countries

joint response efforts during disasters through communication channels, information-sharing mechanisms, and mutual assistance agreements to enhance regional resilience and coordination in addressing cross-border challenges.

Cleaning services and debris management

Strategies to enhance cleaning services and debris management capacities to facilitate post-disaster recovery.

Relocation of entire cities and economic considerations

Strategies to develop comprehensive strategies that incorporate social, economic, and environmental considerations to ensure the successful relocation of communities

Better use and knowledge of Nbs/ EbA

Promote the understanding and adoption of NbS/EbA approaches in planning and decision-making processes, ensuring the sustainable use and conservation of ecosystems for risk reduction

Expansion of Early Warning Systems

Enhance early warning systems by incorporating indicators beyond climatic components - consider socio-economic factors, community vulnerability, and other relevant indicators to provide comprehensive and context-specific early warning information for accurate risk assessment and timely decision-making.

  • National Adaptation Plan   2019
  • National Climate Change Policy Strategy Action Plan 2014 - 2021
  • National Determined Contribution 2019

Pre-emptive adaptation:

  • Implementation of the NDC activities and the focus is now on awareness for behaviour change to anticipate to the effects of climate change
  • Green House Gas inventory currently in development for the period 2001 - 2017
  •  Sediment trapping Units for Mangrove rehabilitation along coastal areas such as Weg naar Zee
  •  Discourage activities especially housing projects in the northern part of Paramaribo which has already been proclaimed as one of the most vulnerable areas
  • Capacity and institutional strengthening of the Meteorological and Hydrological Departments (Early Warning System and digitalizing of data etc)

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

  • Insurance Agencies have already start to introduce nature effects (lightning) in the insurances for buildings especially houses. 
  • In general the financial institution have not yet introduce measures in this regard.

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

  • None I am aware of any activities however the National Coordination Centre for Disaster management is involved in projects/ activities with CDEMA

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

  • N/A

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

  • Use of space technologies in systematic observations and geospatial analyses.
  • Establishment of a baseline on non-economic and social loss and damage, as well as regarding culture, territory, indigenous knowledge systems, ecosystem services.
  • Development of databases and information services to support risk profiling and risk assessment of a variety of timeframes by different actors and stakeholders in their decision-processes.
  • 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.
  • Design of shared database systems to support different ministries and other stakeholders in the country including data collection, storage and sharing protocols and policies.
  • Quantitative assessment of risk for important systems to inform decision-making, in particular, selection of risk management approaches.
  • National-scale site characterization to support hazard mapping, zoning and other land use planning. Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:

Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:

  • Setting up cross-ministerial/sectoral coordination mechanism for the dissemination and linking warnings with early action, and the deployment of emergency assistance for communities.
  • Development of protocols (legal, social, financial, institutional) for relocation to ensure effective buy-in of all stakeholders.
  • 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.
  • Protection of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.
  • Sustainable landscape management including nature-based solutions.

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

  • 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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