Tools and methodologies for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction
Develop capacity-building programmes to create tools and methodologies for mainstreaming DRR and reducing cost escalation in rebuilding public infrastructure and homes.
Development of multi-hazard risk atlas
Provide technical assistance to build capacity to develop a multi-hazard risk atlas supported by scientific data.
Improving and expanding early warning systems
Implement early warning systems for all flood-pone areas across the country and ensure that early warning systems installed for glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) vulnerable communities are adequately implemented.
Revamping of Disaster Management Information System (DMIS)
Provide technical and financial assistance to revamp the DMIS and develop a standardized format for loss & damage assessment.
Institution of crop & livestock insurance schemes
Develop comprehensive risk-transfer mechanism with insurance companies.
Contingency measures, e.g. through risk financing with regional risk pooling, insurance facilities and bonds, and through social protection measures, etc.
Crop and livestock insurance
Addressing losses through disaster relief funds, credit facilities etc.:
Disaster relief fund mobilized by the government and awarded by His Majesty’s secretariat
Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:
Disaster Management Act
Disaster Information Management system
Bhutan Disaster Assessment tool used for compiling information about damages during and in the aftermath of disasters to support post disaster needs assessment
Community based disaster risk management training and contingency plans
Collection and management of data and information (including databases, spatial data, systematic observations, establishing baselines, etc):
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.
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.
Construction of multivariate impacts and loss databases to support assessments and reporting including through the use of bigdata methods.
Quantitative assessment of risk for important systems to inform decision-making, in particular, selection of risk management approaches.
Costing of impacts in the present as well as for projected impacts for use in costs-benefit analyses to appraise options.
Methods for automated and semi-automated inventorying of infrastructure and assets such as involving geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence.
Estimation and outreach on future climate change risks to inform investor decisions.
Development of standardized set of risk assessment guidelines for community/subnational level to prepare and maintain inventories of at-risk assets.
National-scale site characterization to support hazard mapping, zoning and other land use planning.
Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:
Linking national systematic observations and monitoring to regional and global efforts (for relevant variables, hazards and systems).
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.
Development of funding proposals related to the strategic workstreams of the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee.
Optimal design of sustainable public works (drainage, transportation and other critical and protective infrastructure).
Optimizing land use based on available resources (e.g. water resources, energy, etc).
Optimizing financing between different measures to address risk comprehensively/trade-off analyses in deciding on balance between investment in preemptive measures and measures to address residual risk.
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 combinations of appropriate risk finance tools and instruments applicable to a specific country context and vulnerable groups.
Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.
Development of different insurance mechanisms.
Development of regional finance instruments (regional risk facilities, etc).
Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.