Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Database on local coping strategies

I urge development partners to fund some of those proposals, which could improve the security of people in dire need of protection or those whose coping capacities are close to exhaustion because of protracted hostilities.

Coping with environmental stressors is tricky.

The World Food Programme (WFP) and NEPAD jointly carried out a study on national food reserve systems in Africa and how they could be improved to better contribute to improving food security and coping capacities for dealing with food crises.

Palestinian households living behind the Barrier have depleted their coping strategies.

It's actually a sensible way of coping with the inevitability of aging.

He enumerated coping strategies, such as polyculture, rainwater harvesting, migration, and afforestation.

Only a few developing countries currently had telecommunications systems capable of coping with disasters.

The pandemic has a great effect on youth, weakening family and social coping mechanisms.

National capacity building and early warning systems were crucial in coping with these crises.

Acknowledging the value of traditional knowledge, the LEG developed a database of local coping strategies.

12. Also stresses the need to foster better understanding and knowledge of the causes of disasters, as well as to build and strengthen coping capacities through, inter alia, the transfer and exchange of experiences and technical knowledge, access to relevant data and information and the strengthening of institutional arrangements, including community based organizations

21. Also stresses the need to foster better understanding and knowledge of the causes of disasters, as well as to build and strengthen coping capacities through, inter alia, the transfer and exchange of experiences and technical knowledge, access to relevant data and information and the strengthening of institutional arrangements, including community based organizations

It takes time and energy and public servants have enough trouble coping with their current responsibilities.

UNCTAD meeting on Coping with trade reforms a developing country perspective on the WTO tariff negotiations

UNCTAD meeting on Coping with trade reforms A developing country perspective on the WTO tariff negotiations

The proposal before us, which my country sponsors, forms a good basis for coping with such catastrophes.

Strengthening national capacities.

What if obesity is a coping mechanism for a far more sinister problem going on underneath the cell?

You know, perspective is one of these critically important life coping strategies that mountain biking can really teach you.

In all cases, upheaval, or the breakdown of coping mechanisms, stems from inequitable or unsustainable patterns of resource distribution.

However, the depletion of coping mechanisms has led to food shortages in more remote areas, particularly in Northern Darfur.

23. Stresses the need to foster better understanding and knowledge of the causes of disasters, as well as to build and strengthen coping capacities through, inter alia, the transfer and exchange of experiences and technical knowledge, educational and training programmes for natural disaster risk reduction, access to relevant data and information and the strengthening of institutional arrangements, including community based organizations

24. Stresses the need to foster better understanding and knowledge of the causes of disasters, as well as to build and strengthen coping capacities through, inter alia, the transfer and exchange of experiences and technical knowledge, educational and training programmes for natural disaster risk reduction, access to relevant data and information and the strengthening of institutional arrangements, including community based organizations

Coping with the changing workplace and the need for the constant upgrading of skills is a difficult but essential task.

The aim of the project is to identify the peoples' adaptation techniques and traditional knowledge in coping with dryland conditions.

Rapid and effective deployment capacities

Documentation of existing coping strategies At its sixth meeting, the LEG agreed that work be initiated on developing a database on local coping strategies, noting the importance of disseminating information on experience in using indigenous knowledge to support the identification of adaptation options by LDCs which share similar climatic conditions.

The economy of the region is disrupted, opportunities for local food production are reduced and coping mechanisms have been seriously compromised.

Mr. Moussa Sanon, Burkina Faso, presented a case study on transfer of technology and capacity building for coping with climate variability.

Possible areas for collaboration include work relating to TNAs and NAPAs and to TT CLEAR and the database on local coping strategies.

(c) Building human and institutional capacities

Strengthening the capacities of financial intermediaries.

Evolving capacities as an enabling principle.

The Millennium Development Goals could not be achieved without eradicating domestic violence, if only because of the cost of coping with the phenomenon.

One of the greatest environmental and development challenges in the twenty first century will be that of controlling and coping with climate change.

Gaps in capacities and system wide mechanisms

We have lost his outstanding professional capacities.

Science, technology, and innovation building national capacities

The country is still coping with a locust invasion that started in December 2004, which has affected crops, including the important cashew cash crop.

The Indian Ocean tsunami disaster has demonstrated yet again that closer international and regional cooperation is an effective means for coping with natural disasters.

The Council urges the donor countries, international organizations and civil society to address the dire humanitarian situation in many parts of the subregion and to provide adequate resources in the framework of the Consolidated Appeals Process 2005 for West Africa as part of a regional humanitarian response strategy to improve the human security of the people in dire need of protection or those whose coping capacities are close to exhaustion.

South South cooperation and development of national capacities

Acquiring and building capacities for reform and revitalization