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Singapore, UNISDR collaborate on training course to cope with climate change

Xinhua, March 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Singapore and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) will collaborate on a specialized training course for developing countries, in particular Small Island Developing States (SIDS), on the front line of climate change, said a news release by Singapore ' s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.

Singapore and UNISDR will jointly conduct the specialized training course in Singapore in October 2015 which will support developing countries in their implementation of the outcomes of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.

This course will be conducted under the Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP), the primary platform, through which Singapore extends technical assistance to over 170 countries. The course will be in addition to the dedicated technical assistance package for SIDS that Singapore announced at the Third International Conference on SIDS held in Samoa in 2014.

Experts from Singapore and the UNISDR will share their expertise on setting up early warning systems, conducting vulnerability assessments through economic risk analysis, catastrophe assessment, formulating emergency preparedness plans, building resilience in public health systems, climate change adaptation and mitigation measures and sustainable urban planning. "As a small island state, Singapore is vulnerable to natural and man-made disaster threats,"Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law K. Shanmugam said. "Our approach has been to plan for the long term by integrating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) considerations into our national development plans and policies. We hope that our friends will benefit from some of our experience in this field, in particular those from small island states facing similar challenges like us."

The course will address the needs of SIDS that are particularly vulnerable to cyclones. Singapore will also offer 50,000 U.S. dollars to Vanuatu for immediate humanitarian assistance in the wake of Cyclone Pam. Endi