{"id":7691,"date":"2022-11-10T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:47:07","slug":"infrastructure-resilience-accelerator-fund-iraf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/infrastructure-resilience-accelerator-fund-iraf\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund (IRAF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund (IRAF):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>multi-donor trust fund<\/strong>, established with the support of the\u00a0<strong>United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will be managed by the\u00a0<strong>United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (UN MPTFO)<\/strong>\u00a0to support global action on disaster resilience of infrastructure systems, especially in developing countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).<\/li>\n<li>Around\u00a0<strong>$50 million in financial commitments<\/strong>\u00a0have already been announced for IRAF over an initial duration of five years.<\/li>\n<li>IRAF will play a crucial role in equipping the Coalition to deliver improved infrastructure governance, inclusive infrastructure services, diversified knowledge, and financing for resilient infrastructure globally.<\/li>\n<li>One of the first initiatives to be supported by the IRAF is the\u00a0<strong>Infrastructure for the Resilient Island States (IRIS).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Supported by the Governments of India, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the European Union, IRAF\u2019s multi-pronged program focus will offer customised technical assistance, capacity building, research, knowledge management, and advocacy across the infrastructure life cycle for countries at all stages of development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>CDRI was launched by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi at the\u00a0<strong>UN Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.<\/li>\n<li>CDRI promotes rapid development of resilient infrastructure to respond to the Sustainable Development Goals\u2019 imperatives of expanding universal access to basic services, enabling prosperity and decent work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/50m-fund-to-support-disaster-proof-infrastructure\/articleshow\/95413911.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund is a trust fund, established with support of UNDP and UNDRR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}