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Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Iraq’s Fareed Yasseen given 2021 ‘Ambassador of the Year’ award. December 2021
CENSA’s newest board member, Mr. Kevin Ryan. Kevin is a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer. December 2021
CENSA Members,
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you CENSA’s newest board member, Mr.
Kevin Ryan. Kevin is a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer, who has held
senior intelligence positions at the company, battalion, brigade, and
division levels. Kevin has served in both conventional and special operations
units -- deploying multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently he
served as a Defense Congressional Fellow in the US Senate, and as the
Intelligence Portfolio manager for the Army's Office of the Chief Legislative
Liaison.
Kevin joins the board after being a CENSA member for the last three years,
having led several CENSA working groups - including one that published a
CENSA paper on improving artificial intelligence expertise in the national
security workforce. Kevin will be assuming the responsibilities of Director
of Finance for CENSA. Kevin replaces Board Member Christopher McGuire, who is
taking a temporary leave of absence while serving in a new position in the
U.S. government. We thank Chris for his contributions and leadership on the
board for the last three years and wish him the best of luck in his new
responsibilites.
Finally, I’d like to wish you a wonderful holiday season and happy new year -
we look forward to seeing you all at a CENSA event (hopefully in person)
in 2022.
Respectfully,
William J. Denn
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Council for Emerging National Security Affairs
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Thursday, December 23, 2021
First year of Making Cities Resilient 2030 draws to a close December 2021
Dear MCR2030 local government and municipality representatives,
As the first year of Making Cities Resilient 2030 draws to a close it is very encouraging to see such progress from cities and districts all over the world in understanding, communicating and managing their climate and disaster risk more effectively.
MCR2030 already has nearly 630 member local governments covering a population of almost 440 million. We also have seen a number of Resilience Hubs emerge. These are municipalities committed not only to protecting their own citizens and city’s infrastructure systems and assets but inspiring and supporting other local governments to move do the same.
Local governments are on the ‘frontline of opportunity’ in this era of the Climate Emergency. It is at the municipality level that the biggest dividend in avoided future disaster losses can be reaped.
The evidence is clear: those cities that invest to better understand, communicate, and manage their climate and disaster risk protect the lives and livelihoods of their citizens as well as their local infrastructure systems and assets.
With more than 90% of all disasters now related to climate change and extreme weather events, inaction will only escalate risk and losses. Climate change is generating more powerful storms, exacerbating coastal flooding, causing more deadly heatwaves, and prompting greater water shortages and more protracted drought. It is amplifying disaster losses, both in terms of human lives and livelihoods as well as the overall economy. And these losses are increasingly concentrated in urban areas.
Local leadership and capacity to better understand, communicate, and manage this increasing climate and disaster risk is a huge opportunity to invest in a resilient future; one where citizens continue to be safe and economically active; their homes remain dry; roads stay clear; bridges remain standing; power and water supplies keep working; and schools and hospitals stay open.
Local governments that do now in terms of climate and disaster resilience, the less they will suffer – and the less they will pay – in the future.
Reducing the impact of disasters: keeps people out of poverty; protects hard-earned local development gains; and enables municipalities to become more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
In 2022, MCR2030 is committed to supporting your municipality to continue its progress along the Resilience Roadmap with increased and easier access to support, tools and services to help your local government along that journey.
For latest news on the MCR2030 website, please visit here: https://mcr2030.undrr.org/mcr-latest-news
To access all the resources available on the MCR203 website, please visit here: https://mcr2030.undrr.org/
And for those active on LinkedIn please visit the MCR2030 page
Best wishes to all our member local governments and service providers for a resilient and safe 2022!
United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Office
for Northeast Asia & Global Education and Training Institute
4F,
G-Tower, 175 Art Center Daero, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 22004, Republic of Korea
www.undrr.org |
www.preventionweb.net
Friday, December 17, 2021
Food Insecurity: Bananas. El Pulpo
Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation Progress. Request for Proposals. Due January 19, 2022
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5th National Adaptation Forum October 25-27, 2022
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Sheltering Fundamentals Training. Free.
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Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. Food Insecurity, Food Economy. December 2021
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network continues to be a leader in building community-based food initiatives. We operate the seven-acre D-Town Farm, educate young people through our Food Warriors Youth Development Program and are making significant progress in developing the Detroit People’s Food Co-op and the Detroit Food Commons.
"The food economy is the first economy of any society. As we’re thinking about how we build a more sustainable and just economy, food has to figure prominently in that.”
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Thursday, December 16, 2021
MENTAL HEALTH EQUITY FORUM 5:30 PM | Thursday, January 13, 2022
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