UNDP - Hurricanes Irma and Maria: One year on

UNDP has assisted Governments, national institutions and affected communities in the essential initial steps of their recovery efforts. Overall recovery needs for Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Sint Maarten and BVI amount to more than $2 billion. Recovery funds being managed by UNDP represent one percent of recovery needs. Significantly more funds are needed to make the necessary strides for resilient
recovery in affected states and prevent further losses in the future. Given the vulnerability of all the countries and territories in the Caribbean, building resilience must be a priority for the entire region. UNDP is proud to be working closely with CARICOM, CDEMA and other regional stakeholders includingprivate sector partners and key stakeholders such as the Climate Smart Coalition, the Clinton Foundation, insurance companies, UN agencies, funds and programmes and other relevant actors. Building resilience is a gender responsive and transformative process of strengthening the capacity of people, communities, institutions, and countries to anticipate, manage, recover, and transform from socio-economic environmental shocks. In order to support the efforts of the affected countries in building resilience UNDP proposes to provide support for diagnosis of disaster management systems ensuring to address gender responsiveness and sustainability. Regional approaches to climate risk will be grounded in the work with governments and communities in the following areas of intervention:

• Adaptation and risk governance: fostering resilience for food security; livelihoods, climate-resilient integrated water resource and coastal management; climate-resilient infrastructure and energy.

• De-risking: risk assessment and analysis, legislative and institutional frameworks and energy de-risking.

• Investments and access to finance: studies on resilience building, economic diversification and energy

• Insurance for sustainable development: promotion of micro-insurance for the most vulnerable communities and populations.