New: Quick Tips guides on disaster risk reduction and water

Three new "Quick Tips" guides are available in our capacity4dev group on environment, climate change and green economy:

• The ‘Quick Tips: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Environmental and Climate Change Action at Sector Level‘ aims to enlighten staff and partners on disaster risk reduction and management, its close linkages with the environment and particularly climate change (adaptation) and provide guidance on how to integrate disaster risk reduction in sectoral activities.

• The ‘Quick Tips: Integrating the Environment and Climate Change in Water Resources Management’ provides practical recommendations for policy, investment and capacity-development interventions, which aim to mainstream environmental and climate change aspects within integrated, sustainable, participatory and conflict-sensitive management of water resources.

• The ‘Quick Tips: Integrating the Environment and Climate Change in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)’ gives guidance to green policies, investments and capacity-development measures on water, sanitation and hygiene, as a part of integrated water resource management.

These guides are accompanied by annexes on how to use the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the Rio markers to track the financial contributions of development cooperation actions towards the objectives of DRR and the United Nations Rio Conventions on Climate Change, Biological Diversity and the Convention to Combat Desertification; in line with the methodology adopted by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC).

The Quick Tips series is prepared by the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) to support EU staff and partner countries to ensure the environmental and climate sustainability of new programmes and to implement the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) on climate change and other relevant commitments such as the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction and the Biodiversity Convention.

For further guidance on environmental and climate change mainstreaming, contact:

INTPA and NEAR Environment and Climate Change Mainstreaming Facility

E:  INTPA-GREENING-FACILITY@ec.europa.eu or NEAR-GREENING-FACILITY@ec.europa.eu