UNDP

UNDP is a global development network: through this network the UN advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help their people build better lives.

Within UNDP, leadership for crisis prevention and recovery is provided by BCPR, via their three teams within the Technical Advisory Services Cluster (TASC):

Conflict Prevention and Recovery Team (CPRT)
Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Team (DRT)
Early Recovery Team (ERT)

Regional personnel in BCPR come under the Programme and Operations Support Cluster (POSC) and directly support UNDP Country Offices. POSC has CPR Team Leaders (CPRTLs) and Regional Disaster Reduction Advisors (RDRAs), currently based in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. They provide direct support to countries and to UNDP Country Offices, alongside National Disaster Risk Advisors (NDRAs), located in selected high-risk countries to serve as disaster focal points for UNDP.

UNDP takes specific account of the impact of gender roles in their assessment of, and response to, developing and sustaining capacity. BCPR is assigning gender advisors across 10 countries, who will work particularly to strengthen national and local capacity from a gender perspective.

BCPR provides strategic and day-to-day management of CADRI work by:

providing technical expertise and collaboration through its global programmes
developing and sustaining CADRI UN and external partnerships
monitoring CADRI implementation of deliverables
promoting CADRI and mobilizing resources.

Glossary

BCPR: Founded in 2001, BCPR provides a bridge between humanitarian agencies meeting immediate needs following disaster and the long-term recovery that follows. Go to http://www.undp.org/cpr/.
CADRI: An inter-agency initiative of UNDP/BCPR, OCHA and the UNISDR secretariat, CADRI's mission is to advance knowledge of, and strengthen sustainable capacity development for disaster risk reduction worldwide.
capacity: Combination of strengths and resources within a community, society or organization that can be used to achieve agreed social and economic goals.
disaster: Serious disruption of a community or a society: widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, beyond coping with available resources.
UNDP: UN global development network: UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to resources to help their people build better lives. See http://www.undp.org/.

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