Prepared International (PPI)

🌟 Opportunity Alert: PPI Internships Now Open! 🌟 Are you passionate about tackling global challenges head-on? Ready to dive into the world of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation? Prepared International (PPI) has just the opportunity for you! What We're Offering: - 🏅 Join our award-winning team - 🌍 Make a real-world impact - 🚀 Gain invaluable experience in a cutting-edge field We're Looking For: Two dynamic, proactive individuals eager to learn and contribute to our mission. Key Details: - 📅 Application Deadline: September 15th, 2024 - 🗓️ Start Date: Early November 2024 Don't miss this chance to kickstart your career in a field that's shaping our future! Check out the full Terms of Reference below and apply now to be part of the PPI team! #PPIInternship #DisasterRiskReduction #ClimateChangeAction #CareerOpportunity

🌏 World Humanitarian Day 🌍 🌐 On this #WorldHumanitarianDay, Prepared International (PPI) remains steadfast in its commitment to join the global community in calling for public support to pressure parties in conflict and world leaders to take action, ensuring the protection of civilians, including humanitarians, in conflict zones. ⚖️ Through our initiative on #DisasterDiplomacy, Professional Dialogue: Strengthening Cross-Border Cooperation through Disaster Diplomacy, we underscore the importance of saving lives and supporting both civilians and humanitarian workers amid conflict. This project focuses on enhancing disaster preparedness and response coordination between Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. This aims to enhance disaster preparedness and response coordination across Jordan, Israel, and Palestine (JIP), and to improve daily cooperation during emergencies and disaster events. Our ultimate goal is to protect vulnerable communities and ensure effective international assistance when it's needed most. 🗺️ With extensive experience in disaster diplomacy and civil protection, PPI is committed to deepening understanding of the complex challenges surrounding disaster management in #FCV conext. Our work spans various critical areas, including civil protection, disaster diplomacy, climate change, conflict resolution, food security, displacement, sheltering, gender, inclusion and health. 🔄 Today, let us remember that World Humanitarian Day is more than just a date—it’s a powerful call for action to #ActForHumanity. Together, we have a shared responsibility to support and protect those affected by crises worldwide.

🌲 Mainstreaming Wildfire Risk Management in Development Policies 🔥 🔥 #Wildfires have become more frequent and severe due to #ClimateChange and changes in #LandUse and #LandscapeManagement, affecting areas that have not been considered fire-prone in the past. Since 2006, there has been an increasing trend in the number of fires and areas affected in the #EuropeanUnion. The 2023 wildfire season alone saw the fourth largest burnt area on record in the EU, with a total of around 500,000 ha affected. Further, the length of the fire season has increased beyond the usual months of July, August, and September, with many wildfires and critical events outside the period. 📚 With this, mainstreaming and integrating wildfire preparedness and risk management into broader #development policies is essential for #SustainableDevelopment. Effective wildfire risk management involves not only immediate response and planning but also long-term strategies to mitigate risks. 📈 Prepared International (PPI) contributes to this effort by working with various national and local authorities to develop effective wildfire management through the Wildfire Peer Review Assessment Framework (Wildfire PRAF). PPI uses this tool to support comprehensive reviews of disaster risk management and civil protection systems, focusing on the risk associated with large-scale unplanned or uncontrolled fires affecting natural, cultural, industrial, and residential landscapes. 🇸🇮 In Slovenia, PPI has emphasized the importance of mainstreaming wildfire risk management in sustainable forest management practices to reduce the risk of wildfires. In its National Forest Programme 2022–2026, Slovenia incorporates measures to enhance forest resilience to climate-related hazards, such as wildfires, and has identified key programs and activities that include measures for forest stability, vitality, and resilience. By mainstreaming wildfire risk management into such frameworks, we contribute to creating a cohesive approach that strengthens both environmental sustainability and resilience. 📷: European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)

Safe Tuvalu, Safe the World 🌏 Tuvalu’s vulnerability to climate change and the resulting rising sea levels, is embedded in the geographical composition of this Small Island Developing State. Tuvalu includes nine low-lying coral atolls and islands in an area of approximately 500 by 300 KM. In addition to rising sea levels, Tuvalu is increasingly battered by severe weather events, such as cyclones and storm surges on the one hand and prolonged draught periods on the other. These events further erode the delicate balance of ecosystems, making life increasingly precarious for residents. 🚒 On behalf of the World Bank/GFDRR and funded by the European Union, #PPI is currently undertaking a diagnostic that will result in development opportunities and #CapacityDevelopment approaches anticipating adverse weather events, tsunami and other (health) emergencies. One of the major challenges in developing emergency response capacities on an archipelago like #Tuvalu is the remoteness and isolation of the various islands. Where developing an adequate response system in any country requires significant fiscal and human resources, the people of Tuvalu require no less then eight interconnected response systems to cater to the safety of the various island populations across the country. Considering the population size of just 11.000 souls, the island nation will continue to require international assistance for climate change adaptation and continued capacity development. 📊 PPI is keen on sharing knowledge and collecting learnings in support of Emergency Preparedness and anticipatory action cognizant of the growing climate change impacts brought to the shores of island nations worldwide. We stand with first responders of island nations and support their work with systemic capacity development and training.

PPI joins the Anticipation Hub 📢 Prepared International (PPI) has recently joined the Anticipation Hub as a partner. The Anticipatory Hub envisions a world that has an effective anticipatory #humanitarian system which also informs, inspires and supports collaboration across the climate and development sectors to manage risks. Joining this highly respected network marks again a relevant development in the commitment of PPI to enhancing global preparedness and early action strategies. With PPI’s focus on #climatechange, we are looking forward to collaboration and to adding value to the Anticipatory (knowledge) hub. ☯ Within the framework of the new partnership, PPI will contribute with on-the-ground, operational implementation of concepts for anticipatory action in the field of: - Specialized training programs and multi-stakeholder simulations, sharing experience from over 80 countries to enhance early action capacities. - Insights in implementing anticipatory action across diverse contexts including fragile conflict and violence (#FCV), in health emergencies, migration scenarios, and agri #foodsystems resilience and food and nutrition crisis preparedness planning. - Methodologies for comprehensive capacity diagnostics with the aim of assisting transformation from response driven systems to prevention and anticipatory action. - Designing, evaluating, implementing Early Warning Early Action and Forecast Based Financing, ensuring effective linkage between warnings, preventive actions, response and early recovery. - Advocacy through partnerships in regional organizations with the aim to increase investments in anticipation within the humanitarian sector.   🔎 We look forward to the collaborative journey with the Anticipatory Hub and the opportunity to engage with fellow professionals in the field of #anticipatoryaction. Together, we can make a real difference in how the world prepares for and responds to emergencies.

PPI joins the Anticipation Hub 📢 Prepared International (PPI) has recently joined the Anticipation Hub as a partner. The Anticipatory Hub envisions a world that has an effective anticipatory #humanitarian system which also informs, inspires and supports collaboration across the climate and development sectors to manage risks. Joining this highly respected network marks again a relevant development in the commitment of PPI to enhancing global preparedness and early action strategies. With PPI’s focus on #climatechange, we are looking forward to collaboration and to adding value to the Anticipatory (knowledge) hub. ☯ Within the framework of the new partnership, PPI will contribute with on-the-ground, operational implementation of concepts for anticipatory action in the field of: - Specialized training programs and multi-stakeholder simulations, sharing experience from over 80 countries to enhance early action capacities. - Insights in implementing anticipatory action across diverse contexts including fragile conflict and violence (#FCV), in health emergencies, migration scenarios, and agri #foodsystems resilience and food and nutrition crisis preparedness planning. - Methodologies for comprehensive capacity diagnostics with the aim of assisting transformation from response driven systems to prevention and anticipatory action. - Designing, evaluating, implementing Early Warning Early Action and Forecast Based Financing, ensuring effective linkage between warnings, preventive actions, response and early recovery. - Advocacy through partnerships in regional organizations with the aim to increase investments in anticipation within the humanitarian sector.   🔎 We look forward to the collaborative journey with the Anticipatory Hub and the opportunity to engage with fellow professionals in the field of #anticipatoryaction. Together, we can make a real difference in how the world prepares for and responds to emergencies.

Guyana early warning and flood preparedness project ⛈ Guyana's coastal drainage system comprises a unique, network of canals, sluices, pumps and a Water Conservancy. Over time, its operational capacities have declined. The current Coastal Adaptation and #Resilience Project builds on efforts to enhance flood risk management. The project will repair or replace drainage infrastructure assets. Investments enhance drainage functionality for efficient rainfall runoff discharge, improve flood protection, and strengthen irrigation services. 📢 Hired by the Government of #Guyana, PPI is currently engaged to develop an #Emergency Preparedness and #ResponsePlan. The plan will define responsibility for dam operational decision-making, for related emergency communications, define early flood warning systems and establish procedures for evacuation and for mobilizing emergency forces and equipment. 🚦 For #CommunityPreparedness in the context of Guyana PPI identified the following actions as part of early warning: 🏢 Take shelter. Staying before, during and after a flood in an environment where the effect of the flood can be or will de limited - like higher ground - and where one can stay for a few days (friends and family). 🏚 Shelter in home. The preferred course of action for most people is taking shelter in their own home. By building up a stock of food and taking other items to a dry floor to provide for the basic necessities of life including hygiene, medicine, mosquito nets, blankets, candles and means of communication one can stay in most cases safely at home for multiple days. 🏫 Public shelter. People and any pets who do not have a dry floor in their house and buildings that are expected to be in strong water flows can use public shelters specially set up by the government. 🏗 Improvised shelter entails finding a location in the impact area during serious flooding where one can escape the water, such, high buildings and higher ground. Improvised shelter is not prepared and should be avoided as much as possible. 🚧 Stay away from the area. The action perspective of staying away from the area is aimed at people who potentially reside in the flood-prone area. As many people as possible who do not necessarily have to be in the area should stay away from it. This includes canceling events and closing schools, offices and catering facilities to limit the influx to the area. 🚑 Evacuate. Evacuation is the process of moving people and their pets from the flood-prone area or the area threatened by chain effects to a safe area. Evacuation can take place before, during and after flooding. PPI believes that understanding of #hydrological dynamics of low laying #coastalzones combined with inspection capacities and #earlywarning systems with behavioral instructions will #safelives and limit impact on societies around the globe.

🌎 Addressing the Climate Refugee Crisis 🌍   🌦️#ClimateChange drives vulnerable populations to migrate due to environmental degradation and natural hazards. This affects human movements within and across borders, impacting development, security, and global stability.   🌋#ClimateRefugees, a subset of environmental refugees, flee due to natural hazards. The International Red Cross estimates there are more environmental than political refugees. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports over 376 million people have been displaced by natural hazards since 2008, with 32.6 million in 2022. This number is expected to rise.   🔑Key #challenges for environmental refugees include:   - Lack of international legal protection   - Difficulties adapting to urban life   - Cultural and legal challenges   - Resource competition leading to conflicts   📌The climate crisis worsens displacement, threatening human rights, increasing poverty, and straining community relations, leading to further forced displacement.   ⛺️Displaced populations often live in remote areas, overcrowded camps, or informal settlements with limited access to services, making them vulnerable to climate hazards. Assistance to prepare for and recover from climate-related shocks is crucial to addressing climate change as a root cause of displacement and finding lasting solutions.   🦺Prepared International (PPI) focuses on adaptation initiatives to bolster resilience against climate impacts, creating customized strategies for governments, civil societies, and stakeholders. PPI evaluates vulnerability and capacity to manage climate risks and develops measures to reinforce infrastructure, enhance disaster preparedness, and boost ecosystem resilience.   For more on climate change and disaster displacement, see the EU Parliament article on "The concept of 'climate refugee': Towards a possible definition." Photo Credits: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket

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🌍 Floods vs. Droughts: The Double-Edged Sword of Climate Change 💡According to the United Nations, droughts are among the greatest threats to sustainable development. Forecasts predict that by 2050, droughts may affect more than 75 percent of the world’s population. The magnitude of this problem demands the international community’s constant attention. However, in honor of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on June 17, we specifically highlight the importance of climate resilience and global action to combat drought, the correlation between drought and floods, as well as their adverse effects. ☀️Recent research indicates that the chances of drought in the Horn of Africa are 100 times higher due to climate change. This is not only related to the lack of rainfall but also to the rapid evaporation of water due to high temperatures. While the amount and frequency of rainfall are significant, the effects of global warming and elevated temperatures are even more impactful. 🏜️Despite often seeing images of dry landscapes in the Horn of Africa, the region also experiences significant flooding. Droughts can lead to floods as heavy rain falls in a short period after prolonged droughts, causing the soil to be unable to absorb the water fully. This results in shallow absorption and increased flooding, as the excess water flows off rather than being absorbed. This cycle exacerbates both floods and droughts, ultimately triggering food insecurity in vulnerable communities.   🥣At Prepared International (PPI), we collaborate with communities and governments to strengthen climate resilience through technical assistance, helping them adjust to climate change, counter environmental degradation, minimize disaster risk, and enhance disaster preparedness. Our work supports communities in preparing for and mitigating the effects of climate change, reducing their vulnerability and that of their ecosystems. 🦺For instance, in Somalia, PPI has leveraged its extensive experience from Yemen and Sudan to design and develop comprehensive food security crisis preparedness plans. These plans aim to strengthen long-term resilience-building and policy frameworks.     #ClimateChange #SustainableDevelopment #Drought #Floods #ClimateResilience #GlobalAction #PPI #FoodSecurity #FCV