Provide overall day-to-day assistance for content management and updates of the RAPAP Platform, including country profiles and related data/infographics, multilateral mechanisms and stakeholder profiles, resources, monitoring data and tools, and events and updates.
Responsibilities:
The DA16 project, "Building disaster and climate resilience to food and energy crises in Asia and the Pacific," aims to address the compounding and cascading crises faced by the Asia Pacific region, particularly in food and energy sectors, caused by disasters and climate change.
ESCAP resolution 78/1 commits to strengthening the resilience of the region’s economies and societies against wide-ranging socioeconomic effects of pandemics, natural disasters, climate change, and other shocks.
The project seeks to build the capacity of selected countries in the Asia-Pacific region to better manage the increasing and shifting variability of climate and disaster risks in food and energy systems to build long-term resilience.
This project aims to achieve this objective by developing an integrated climate risk assessment toolkit, linking hazard information under different climate projection scenarios with exposure information in food and energy sectors based on the latest climate models and other food and energy system assessment frameworks.
This toolkit will help policymakers understand the complex nature of risks across their sectors and guide evidence-based policy actions. Separately, this project will also develop a climate adaptation toolkit that recommends suitable climate adaptation policies and solutions based on a large set of available data on climate adaptation best practices around the world.
This tool utilizes machine learning to automatically recommend policies and solutions for countries taking into their country profiles and support policy makers.
The project also includes national capacity building workshops to enhance institutional capacities of target countries to conduct risk assessments of food and energy systems as well as a regional workshop to disseminate the findings and discuss challenges at the regional level.
As much as possible, the tools will explore innovation in AI to link hazard information under different climate projection scenarios with exposure information in food and energy sectors based on the latest climate models and other food and energy system assessment, which will be taken forward through various ESCAP Portals including the ESCAP Risk and Resilience Portal and the ESCAP Energy Portal.
Air pollution: While the Asia-Pacific region has seen rapid economic growth in recent decades, it has been accompanied by a decline in air quality, resulting from rapid and unplanned urbanization, inefficient transport systems, unclean energy systems, ineffective industrial regulations, agricultural practices, and many other factors.
Much of the region’s air pollution is also transboundary, impacting populations far from its sources.
In this context, ESCAP member states adopted the Regional Action Programme on Air Pollution (RAPAP) at the 7th Committee on Environment and Development in 2022, which was subsequently endorsed by the resolution (79/6) on the Implementation of the Ministerial Declaration at the 79th Commission Session in 2023.
Requirements:
An advanced degree in computer science or software development is required, and/or equivalent knowledge of computer technology is an advantage.
Multiple years of experience in software development for institutions with international exposure.
Demonstrated technical expertise in programming, open-source software, and database management systems, including but not limited to Ruby, Python, SQL, Drupal, Solr, CKAN, Fenix, GIS, and D3.
