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Probability and Uncertainty in Risk Estimation and Communication Our overall aim is to build earthquake resilience in China by improving (a) the assessment of seismic hazard and risk from earthquakes and consequent events and (b) the communication and use of probabilistic information in the development of more proportionate and risk-based strategies for disaster risk reduction.  We will build on and extend a recently-developed historical catalogue for earthquakes, extend it for the first time to include consequent events (landslides, debris/mud-flows, outburst floods), unify this new database with modern instrumental data, use state-of the art statistical techniques to quantify the associated uncertainties, and incorporate social science-based understanding of risk communication and governance to improve policy development and implementation.  The work programme will be carried out in Si-chuan (including the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake) and Yun-nan provinces. While they are both tectonically active, and mountainous, and thus vulnerable not only to earthquakes but also to consequent hazards of earthquake-triggered landslides and flooding, Si-chuan is one of the wealthiest provinces in China, while Yun-nan is one of poorest. These differences in wealth, combined with the recency of the  devastating 2008 Wenchuan in Si-chuan compared to the more attenuated memory of the 1996 Lijiang earthquake in Yun-nan, make for a natural experiment in which to test the efficacy of improved probabilistic assessment of risk and associated uncertainty to people and property by earthquakes, and consequent event hazards, in supporting more risk-based approaches to disaster reduction.  This project will promote long-term sustainable growth in earthquake prone regions of China by improving both the assessment of earthquake hazard and consequent event risk and the communication, understanding, and use of the resulting probabilistic forecasts for disaster risk reduction by policymakers and local publics. It addresses several specific capacity gaps identified in successive Chinese national disaster risk reduction strategies. As well as engaging with policymakers at both the national and local levels to improve the effectiveness of emergency planning and building code regulation, we will also engage directly with local publics to enhance public understanding of risk and capacity to deal with it. In so doing, the project will also fulfil the UK's Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment to promoting "the economic development and welfare of developing countries" by drawing on UK's science base to address a key vulnerability differentially affecting the very poorest in China. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
CADTIME: Clean Air for Delhi Through Interventions, Mitigations and Engagement The Clean Air for Delhi Through Interventions, Mitigations and Engagement (CADTIME) project aims to understand what is required to deliver significant reductions in levels of air pollution, within the confines of factors which are under our control, through affordable, effective interventions that consider and respond to future changes.  CADTIME brings together a consortium of institutions and experts from across both India and the United Kingdom with the goal of addressing air quality issues that affect people's health in Delhi. This goal will be achieved through the development of an Integrated Action Plan (IAP), detailing strategies and potential interventions for mitigating air pollution in both the city, and surrounding region.   The IAP will be based on development of a sound understanding of the current contributing factors to air pollution across the domestic, transport, industrial and agricultural sectors, for Delhi, as well as forecasting of how those sectors will change across the short, medium and long terms. The plan can only be realised through the contributions of government agencies, local stakeholders and collaboration with population at large. The use of workshops, focus groups and extensive consultation will ensure that proposed strategies are realistic, clearly defined, well targeted and mindful of technological and social constraints. Above all strategies will be economically viable and environmentally sustainable. They will also be far-thinking and cross-cutting, embracing political, technological and behavioural change.     The CADTIME project is envisaged to run over a 48-month period. Initial stages of the project will involve the development of modelling tools, such as collating emissions inventories and dispersion models, as well as the collection of information on current policies and best practice for mitigation within the city and region. The international nature of the consortium will allow a golden opportunity for academics and researchers from both nations to learn from each other. Latter stages of the project will see collaboration with stakeholders coming to the fore, as the IAP takes definition and shape. Care will be taken to ensure that, wherever possible, the strategies defined for Delhi will also have relevance to other major urban areas in the sub-continent. In addition to Delhi, the CADTIME consortium includes the Indian Institutes of Technology of Madras and Bombay. Ultimately, the beneficiaries of the CADTIME project will be the Indian People and Government through a reduction in the burden of ill health that is inflicted upon them by air quality. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Sustaining Himalyan Water Resources in a Changing Climate (SusHi-Wat) Funding to support coordination and knowledge exchange activities for the SWR programme which aims to understand basin processes affecting water security. This will facilitate the development of sustainable basin-wide water management strategies to ensure India’s water security The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Upscaling Catchment Processes for Sustainable Water Management in Peninsular India Economic development and population growth in Peninsular India have resulted in rapid changes to land-use, land-management and water demand which together are seriously impacting and degrading water resources. Urbanization, deforestation, agricultural intensification, shifts between irrigated agriculture and rain-fed crops, increased groundwater use, and the proliferation of small-scale surface water storage interventions, such as farm-level bunds (usually to conserve soil moisture in fields) and check-dams (to replenish local aquifers) all have contributed to significant changes in the hydrological functioning of catchments. The impact of such changes and interventions on local hydrological processes, such as streamflow, groundwater recharge and evapotranspiration, are poorly constrained, and our understanding of how these diverse local changes cumulatively impact water availability at the broader basin-scale is very limited. Focussing on the highly contentious inter-state Cauvery River basin (with an area of c.80,000 km2, the Cauvery is one of India's largest river basins) our study addresses the key scientific challenge of representing the many local, small-scale interventions in Peninsular India at larger scales. Using observations from established experimental catchments in both rural and urban settings, the project will first explore how changes in land-use, land-cover, irrigation practices and small-scale water management interventions locally affect hydrological processes. In tandem we will then develop novel upscaling methods to represent the improved process-understanding in models at the larger sub-basin (Kabini, ~10,000 km2) and basin (Cauvery) scales. In so doing, the project will demonstrate the capability to generically represent the cumulative impact of abundant small-scale changes in basin-wide integrated water resources management models. The impact of local-scale interventions will further be modelled alongside projections of population growth, climate- and land-use-change and water demand to assess future impacts on water security across the basin. Key stakeholders are involved throughout the different stages of the project to ensure that project outputs reflect their interests and concerns and provide useful input to their decision making. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
NORDESTE Child Grant 2 Funding to support collaborative research between UK and Brazilian academics to understand how environmental stressors e.g. climate change, deforestation affect the ability of Brazilian ecosystems to deliver societal benefits. Outputs will inform ecosystem management & policy in Brazil The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Nexus Action for Mangroves in Selangor, Malaysia: protection through value creation for community-public-private partnerships (NexAMS) This project aims to protect mangroves in Malaysia through value creation for community-public-private partnerships The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
The ecosystem response to urban transformation: the impact of rapid urbanisation on the social demographics of ecologically-significant insect species Landscapes across the world are undergoing rapid urbanisation. We will investigate the role of urban living in the life of an ecologically prominent social insect, wasps of the genus Polistes in Brazil. Do urbanised landscapes host higher densities of colonies? Does life in artificial environments recalibrate the demographics of social species? Does this have implications for social behaviour? Is an urbanised world a new ecological context to which social behaviour must adapt? Are ancestral evolutionary strategies helped or hindered by the transition to urbanisation? We will address fascinating questions such as these through thorough behavioural analyses of Brazil's polistine wasps, using a host of cutting-edge technologies - including advanced sociogenomics (the study of social behaviour and the genome) and intricate radio-tagging of wasps in the wild. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Process Analysis, Observations and Modelling - Integrated Solutions for Cleaner Air for Delhi (PROMOTE) Pollution in Indian cities is a rapidly increasingly problem, with significant impacts on the economy and health of the population. The vision of this programme is to initiate efforts on air pollution hazards and impacts on health and the evidence to support measures for air quality improvements in Delhi The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
PARAMO - Provisioning of ecosystem services And cultuRAl values in the MOntane tropics The tropics harbour more species than anywhere else on Earth. This biodiversity supports a number of ecosystem services -- benefits that humankind derives from the natural environment, including water, nutrient-rich soils and pest-control by predatory birds and insects -- that are essential for human well-being, and it also underpins many cultural attachments that people have with nature. However, the disturbance of natural habitats and their conversion for other uses, such as farming, are driving a global extinction crisis. This project takes an innovative approach to understand the links between biodiversity and ecosystem services and cultural provision using the Colombian Andes as a case study.   The Colombian Andes are one of the most biodiversity rich places on Earth, their soils contain carbon-rich peats, ecosystem services are derived for the majority of Colombia's human population, and these are rich in cultural values on both a personal and community level. In spite of this tremendous wealth, hostilities in Colombia have long hampered research to understand eco-cultural relationships. The reduction in hostilities creates a policy window to impact the development of a sustainable bioeconomy, i.e. the economic exploitation of its biological resources, underpinned by Colombia's high biodiversity. There are inherent environmental and cultural risks of capitalising upon biodiversity, which could drive negative outcomes for conservation or society. Our multidisciplinary programme will answer the major, unanswered question of how best to incorporate and optimise the combination of biodiversity, ecosystem service, and cultural values within natural resource management. In doing so, we will transform the role of cultural heritage and human-environmental experiential knowledge within the design of conservation programmes.   Our study will answer this key overarching question by fulfilling four main Objectives that will: (1) define  the impacts of habitat conversion and disturbance on biodiversity; (2) resolve how ecosystem service provisioning and resilience is affected by habitat conversion and disturbance, focusing specifically on carbon stocking, nutrient recycling, soil nutrient and water retention, and landslide prevention; (3) understand how local communities perceive and attach cultural value to biodiversity and ecosystem services, via a program of story-telling workshops; and (4) integrate environmental and cultural values to co-design natural resource management, and translate these findings to core stakeholders, from local communities, to NGOs and relevant government departments. This research will thus enable our multidisciplinary team of experts to support Colombia in developing its economy in a manner that continues to protect biodiversity, ecosystem services and cultural values and beliefs. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Integrated upstream and downstream thinking to mitigate water security challenges from Peruvian glacier retreat Research programme which aims to provide an improved understanding of the rate of glacial retreat in Peru and the impact of this on water security and natural hazards The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Ganga Delta0Bay of Bengal Interactions Proposed programme aims to understand the interactions and interdependencies between the Ganga Delta and the Bay of Bengal and investigate how these are changing as a result of climate change and human activity. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Biomes of Brasil - resilience, recovery, and diversity: "BIO-RED" Funding to support collaborative research between UK and Brazilian academics to understand how environmental stressors e.g. climate change, deforestation affect the ability of Brazilian ecosystems to deliver societal benefits. Outputs will inform ecosystem management & policy in Brazil The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Impact of Wood Burning Air Pollution on Preeclampsia and other Pregnancy Outcomes in Temuco Exposure to air pollutants has important acute and chronic health effects. An important effect that has been recently studied is pregnancy effects of pollutants. Scarce literature exists related to impacts of pollutants on preeclampsia and even less about the specific impact of residential wood burning emissions on pregnancy outcomes. Temuco is located in southern Chile and is known for its very high concentrations of air pollutants associated to residential wood burning.   The main objective of this proposal is to determine whether exposure to air pollutants (specifically PM2.5 and wood burning tracer) have an impact on preeclampsia and other pregnancy outcomes (low birth weight, birth weight, small of gestational age, preterm birth). Reproductive data will be obtained from available databases at the Hospital Dr. Hernan Henriquez Aravena in Temuco and Padre Las Casas between 2009 and 2015. A total of approximately 18,000 pregnancies are expected. A year-long air pollution campaign will be performed in 3 10-week sessions, including a total of 20 fixed-site sampling points and mobile measurements. The studied pollutants will be PM2.5 and wood burning tracers within it (levoglucosan and others). Data will be fitted to produce spatial models and maps using the Land-Use Regression approach. This model will be used to estimate individual exposures by trimester to the subjects using residential geocoding and historical PM measurements. Finally, logistic and linear regression models will be fitted to estimate the impact of air pollutants exposure on the selected outcomes, adjusting for other individual and temporal variables.   Expected results are i) an air pollution characterization of the campaigns with emphasis in wood burning tracers, ii) a Land-Use Regression model for air pollutants in Temuco including maps of air pollutants, iii) a pregnancy outcome descriptive characterization for the study period in Temuco, iv) results of the epidemiological study showing whether air pollutants (emphasizing wood burning emissions) have impacts on the studied pregnancy outcomes. To achieve these objective, we will assemble a capable team of both Chilean and UK researchers. Four ISI articles are expected as scientific production.   Additionally, four master thesis, one doctoral thesis, and a two final workshops in Chile to disseminate the research findings. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
[Viet Nam] Valuing the benefits of blue/green infrastructure for flood resilience, natural capital and urban development in Viet Nam Collaborative research with Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand to better understand the likely impacts of hydrometeorological hazards to enable appropriate adaptation and mitigation measures, such as new flood defences or the restoration of natural defences like mangroves to be developed and implemented The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
Forecasting biodiversity losses in Wallacea from ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes. The prorgamme aims to explore biodiversity of the Wallacea region, and through this understand tensions in land use and the adaptation of biodiversity in response to environmental change. The programme will provide solutions to support effective management, restoration, rehabilitation and exploitation of the region and its biodiversity. The Newton Fund builds research and innovation partnerships with developing countries across the world to promote the economic development and social welfare of the partner countries.
FB-PP - Appui à la réforme du secteur de l'énergie Le prêt sollicité de 40 M€ et accompagné d'une subvention déléguée de l'Union européenne de 5 000 000 €, appuiera les autorités moldaves dans la mise en œuvre d'une réforme ambitieuse du secteur de l'énergie. Ce prêt est la première tranche d'un programme sur 6 ans qui vise à aligner le secteur de l'énergie avec les normes européennes, à favoriser le déploiement des énergies renouvelables et de mesures d'efficacité énergétique et à renforcer la sécurité énergétique du pays.
Financement budgétaire de politique publique en appui à la décarbonation de l'économie A court terme, ce financement budgétaire de politique publique est une réponse aux besoins de financement conséquents et immédiats de la Moldavie dans le contexte de la crise ukrainienne. Plus largement, les actions identifiées dans le cadre de ce financement budgétaire viennent soutenir les réformes règlementaires des secteurs énergie-ferroviaire, qui contribuent à la fois à la convergence européenne, à la diversification des sources d'énergie et à la décarbonation de l'économie moldave.
Projet Stabilité & Résilience Moldavie : SRP Moldava Renforcement de la cohésion sociale et de la résilience de la société Moldave face aux défis posés par l'accueil des réfugiés ukrainiens - Les capacités et l'autonomisation des acteurs locaux pour l'intégration effective des réfugiés ukrainiens en Moldavie sont renforcées
Réduction de la vulnérabilité aux risques de catastrophes et renforcement de la résilience socio-économique en Moldavie Réduction de la vulnérabilité aux risques de catastrophes et renforcement de la résilience socio-économique en Moldavie
SWaSSA Zambia (GIZ Water Sector Reform) Funding under this initiative provides support for Germany's water sector reform in Zambia program, implemented via the German Aid Agency (GIZ) through delegated co-operation with Germany. The primary goal of the program is that the "legal, organisational and institutional framework of the Zambian water sector is improved leading to sustainable access to safe and reliable Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) services in low income areas and improved Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)". The program directly aligns with the Government of Zambia priorities, supporting Zambia's broader Water Supply and Sanitation Program (WSSP) and more directly the National Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Program (NUWSSP). The total value of this initiative is $4 million expensed during 1 financial year, 2010-11.
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Julia Taft Refugee Fund - Asociacion Aqui Estoy Creating opportunities for the improvement of living conditions and integration of Venezuelan migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Costa Rica.
PR9830470 - INL SJO SINLEC16A0008 Rush Dogs Shipme PR9830470 - INL SJO SINLEC16A0008 Rush Dogs Shipment. Covers the costs for receiving, inspecting, stocking, pulling from stock, delivery, and other related services such as the 1 percent acquisition surcharge for executing grants and contracts above post warrant levels.
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