The Road to the SDGs

PURPOSE X With 50% of the world’s fragile populations residing in IsDB MCs, the P5P has a strong focus on resilience. It calls for IsDB to find innovative solutions to support MCs to manage risks, shocks, stresses and pressures posed by human-made and natural disasters. As a result, IsDB has developed and launched a number of initiatives to help its MCs tackle challenges to their resilience, from factors as diverse as climate change, conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic. X IsDB has developed a Fragility and Resilience Policy, which aims to: – Set the strategic direction of IsDB in addressing fragility and conflict by strengthening institutions – Build resilience and contribute to social cohesion and sustainable development in MCs – Address the drivers of fragility, ranging from social and economic exclusion and marginalisation to unequal development – Learn from the experiences of other MDBs. X IsDB is engaged in a range of activities and programmes to combat climate change. In this connection, it has developed a Climate Change Policy to support the drive to mitigate and adapt to the effects of a warming planet. Comprehensive climate change guidance for several key sectors has been prepared by the World Resources Institute for IsDB, including: – Water sector guidance, which covers water resources extraction and conveyance structures, water treatment facilities (including desalination), treated water storage (tanks and basins), distribution networks and sewerage infrastructure – Energy sector guidance, which applies to energy sector projects including thermal power, hydroelectric power, solar and wind power projects as well as transmission and distribution projects – Transport sector guidance for roadway, railway and port projects, and urban mass transit projects. METHOD X A number of tools have been introduced to address resilience issues in IsDB’s work in MCs: – Fragility and Resilience Analysis, an early risk and resilience assessment – Watching Brief (WB), which provides political, economic, social and environmental reporting on high- risk fragile and conflict-affected environments T hrough various policies, strategies and publications, IsDB is building resilience for sustainable development that takes account of the contexts and drivers of fragility, enabling more relevant and tailored interventions Programming for resilience in response to climate change and other challenges facing MCs Effective programming for resilience requires strategies for combating climate change and other risks to be included in programmes and projects to ensure that the drivers of fragility are addressed in advance [ 234 ] SDGs