Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Increasingly practitioners and policy makers working across the globe are recognising the importance of bringing together disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. From studies across 15 Pacific island nations, a key barrier to improving national resilience to disaster risks and climate change impacts has been identified as a lack of capacity and expertise resulting from the absence of sustainable accredited and quality assured formal training programmes in the disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation sectors. In the 2016 UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, it was raised that most of the training material available are not reviewed either through a peer-to-peer mechanism or by the scientific community and are, thus, not following quality assurance standards. In response to these identified barriers, this paper focuses on a call for accredited formal qualifications for capacity development identified in the 2015 United Nations landmark agreements in DRR and CCA and uses the Pacific Islands Region of where this is now being implemented with the launch of the Pacific Regional Federation of Resilience Professionals, for DRR and CCA. A key issue is providing an accreditation and quality assurance mechanism that is shared across boundaries. This paper argues that by using the United Nations landmark agreements of 2015, support for a regionally accredited capacity development that ensures all countries can produce, access and effectively use scientific information for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The newly launched Pacific Regional Federation of Resilience Professionals who work in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation may offer a model that can be used more widely

An integrated optimisation platform for sustainable resource and infrastructure planning

It is crucial for sustainable planning to consider broad environmental and social dimensions and systemic implications of new infrastructure to build more resilient societies, reduce poverty, improve human well-being, mitigate climate change and address other global change processes. This article presents resilience.io, 2 a platform to evaluate new infrastructure projects by assessing their design and effectiveness in meeting growing resource demands, simulated using Agent-Based Modelling due to socio-economic population changes. We then use Mixed-Integer Linear Programming to optimise a multi-objective function to find cost-optimal solutions, inclusive of environmental metrics such as greenhouse gas emissions. The solutions in space and time provide planning guidance for conventional and novel technology selection, changes in network topology, system costs, and can incorporate any material, waste, energy, labour or emissions flow. As an application, a use case is provided for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector for a four million people city-region in Ghana

Implementation of CSR Programs Toward Achievement of the Sdgs Target

Preparation of this study aimed to evaluate whether CSR program PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk has met the criteria of GRI-Standard and determine whether CSR program PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk is able to support perncapaian SDG's targets in 2030. This study is a qualitative and quantitative research. Research data collection techniques by interviewing the management of PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk namely Community Relations division and the local government. The second data collection techniques is by distributing questionnaires to people who get Holcim CSR program. The results of data analysis in this research produces information that only PT Holcim Indonesia CSR program Tbk economics that has influence on the target perncapaian SDG's. While the social and environmental fields have not been proven to have an effect on the achievement of the target SDG's. The results of the data analysis was due largely Holcim CSR program is only focused on the achievement of the economy and the realization of all the indicators for the achievement of SDG's may have been performed by the company as a whole, but does't plan implemented CSR programs on community sustainability

Community Empowerment Model Through Optimization of the Role of Indonesian Migrant Workers (Pmi) Purna in Encouraging Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal in East Lampung Regency

  Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) who have ended their employment contracts, are called purna PMI. Full PMI who have returned from working abroad bring enormous remittances. Remittances that are not managed properly will run out for consumptive purposes, so that it can cause purna PMI who have returned from working abroad to depart again as PMI. Therefore, purna PMI needs to be fostered and empowered with the aim of having sustainable income, thus having the opportunity to be able to create jobs for the surrounding communities This research uses descriptive research with a qualitative approach. Based on the results of the study, there is currently a purna PMI empowerment program, namely the Program (1) Productive Migrant Village by the Ministry of Manpower, (2) Empowerment program for PMI Gold by the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers (BNP2TKI). This program is actually relatively good, but the program in East Lampung Regency has not run optimally. This is because there are still obstacles such as human PMI resources that are still lack of knowledge, difficult access to capital, marketing of entrepreneurial products that have not been maximized and lack of local partners who are involved in the empowerment process. This has led to the need for synergies in creating and implementing an empowerment model, which can be a reference model for empowerment of regions with full PMI follicle to encourage the achievement of sustainable development in East Lampung Regency.   Keywords : PMI purna, Remittance and Empowermen

Science-Policy Briefing Paper and Event 2

The second briefing paper summarizing work being carried-out in AtlantOS. The outcome will be presented to the stakeholders in a briefing event

Hubungan Penerapan Manajemen Terpadu Balita Sakit (Mtbs) : Status Imunisasi Dengan Kelengkapan Imunisasi Dasar Pada Bayi (Usia 2 – 12 Bul an) Di Puskesmas Bahu

: Maternal and child health is one of the targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), precisely the goal 3 of 17 SDG\u27s goal is good health; ensure a healthy life and encourage prosperity for all people in all ages (KemenKes RI, 2015). Based on these reasons, the program comes the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) one immunization status with the aim to improve the health and quality of child health services (Hidayati & Wahyono, 2011). The purpose of this study to determine the relationship of the implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) with Completed Basic Immunization In Infant (age 2-12 months) in Puskesmas Bahu. This study design was analytic correlation with cross sectional approach. Samples were taken using a non-probability sampling techniques with the purpose of sampling a way which amounts to 111 babies who were in Poli child/ IMCI. The results of the study data analysis using chi-square test for Relations Implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI): Immunization Status with Completeness Immunization Basics in Infant (age 2-12 months) in Puskesmas Bahu, with p value = 0.000 which is smaller than α = 0.05. The results showed relationship with (IMCI) implementation Completed Basic Immunization In Infant (age 2- 12 months) in Puskesmas Bahu. The conclusions is The implementation of IMCI: Immunization status in terms of completeness of basic immunization in young children, should be done so that the basic immunization in infants in accordance with the schedule of administration

Implementasi Strategi Kebijakan Pelayanan Kesehatan Reproduksi Remaja di Kabupaten Semarang

The multilateral development scheme incorporates SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) into the SDG'S (Suistanable Development Goals) indicator, it means that in all development aspects should not override the SRHR issues. Reproductive health services for teenagers have got no serious attention yet, whereas teenagers are the most vulnerable group that sustaining various risks of reproductive health problems. Major issues related to adolescent reproductive health also called by term Triad KRR (sexuality, HIV / AIDS and drugs) are actual issues that require the attention of all parties. This study aims to analyze the implementation of adolescent reproductive health services policy strategy and to identify factors affecting its implementation in Semarang regency. The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive. Data collection techniques used through in-depth interviews, observation, and literature review. This study refers to Government Regulation No. 61 of 2014 and uses Grindle's implementation model. The results showed that adolescent reproductive health services got less attention so that it has not been able to achieve the desired goals. It is due to the lack of good coordination between the involved implementers, implemented strategies are less effective, Semarang Regency Government has not yet prepared technical guidance on teenagers reproductive health service policy, and distribution of beneficiaries is not evenly distributed