UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica

15/06/2026

🌎🍃 , Damage to local ecosystems account for 30% of Jamaica’s hurricane Melissa losses? That’s half of 🇯🇲’s forests impacted; valuable soils, mountain systems, and coral reefs, damaged. Cascading effects have touched livelihoods: Communities, farmers, and fishers rely on these resources to make a living. 🍃That’s why placing nature at the heart of recovery requires urgent restoration of these eco systems.

🎣🧑‍🌾Ecosystem recovery supports the bounce back of community livelihoods, water, and food security on land and at sea — a crucial ingredient in a green recovery.

🏗️☀️🍃Equally critical is integrating nature-based and climate solutions into infrastructure, build back of towns, communities, and buildings. We must integrate low-carbon, nature-based technologies and design solutions so that they can be better equipped to withstand future climate disasters. - 📺 UNDP Resident Representative, Dr Kishan Khoday on Smile Jamaica.

🌎 ’s Resident Representative, Kishan Khoday, pressed home our call for a nature-led hurricane recovery on TVJ’s Smile Jamaica this morning.

📺 Interview broadcast by Television Jamaica

15/06/2026

📍TOMORROW🗓️ TVJ’s Smile Jamaica - TVJ will host Resident Representative, Dr Kishan Khoday to continue the conversation on placing nature at the heart of hurricane Melissa recovery. We’ve made the call and now Dr Khoday will explain the nuts and bolts of how to make this happen.

📺Tune in
🗓️Tommorow Mon 15 Jun at 7:15 a.m.

13/06/2026

Jamaica should place nature-based solutions at the centre of its recovery from Hurricane Melissa, particularly in vulnerable communities, according to Dr Kishan Khoday, resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Read more: https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20260612/place-nature-heart-hurricane-recovery-undp-representative

13/06/2026

Speaking at the National Environment & Planning Agency’s (NEPA) 25th Anniversary World Environment Day Distinguished Lecture, Resident Kishan Khoday said the rebuilding phase offers a chance to pursue a stronger, greener recovery.

Such an approach should prioritise communities most affected by the storm, strengthening their resilience to future shocks, he stated.

Jamaica should place nature-based solutions at the centre of its recovery from Hurricane Melissa, particularly in vulnerable communities, according to Dr Kishan Khoday, resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).Speaking at the National Environment and Planning Agency...

12/06/2026

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11/06/2026

📍When hurricanes strike, we look to nature to protect us. When that fails, it’s time to recalibrate. ⚠️Ferocious hurricanes ⚠️Rising seas ⚠️Hotter Temps⚠️Drought & changed seasons ⬇️. These are signs that nature is distressed.

Crisis is an opportune time to strike strategically, intentionally. That is why UNDP is calling for nature to be placed at the heart of hurricane Melissa ecovery efforts. This goes beyond stand alone nature recovery plans. The current recovery and reconstruction effort post Hurricane Melissa provides an inflection point to go farther than ever before. Nature recovery projects & plans are great👍. Nature at the heart ❤️of all recovery projects & plans is next level.

🗣️Learn How and Why Nature should lead Hurricane Melissa recovery in Jamaica.

🎥 🔗Watch the masterclass delivered by Kishan Khoday, UNDP Resident Representative https://go.undp.org/cSK

11/06/2026

🌎❄️The last time the earth had this much carbon in circulation, the Arctic was a rainforest.

In his presentation at NEPA’s 25th Distinguished Lecture on , Resident Representative Kishan Khoday shows how accumulating carbon levels are heating the earth, warming the seas and triggering cascading effects including more frequent and ferocious hurricanes.

There is much to be concerned about, but we are not hopeless. Our united actions are making inroads, and our intensified strategic partnerships can do far more.

📍We have a chance at this juncture in Jamaica’s hurricane recovery to emphasise nature-based solutions that prioritize vulnerable communities.

A matters. This is vital for strengthening climate resilience and offsetting rising carbon levels so earth can undergo a major reset.

🎥 NEPA/ video. National Environment & Planning Agency

11/06/2026

‼️Now is the time‼️Jamaica 🇯🇲 must place nature-based solutions at the heart of Hurricane Melissa recovery, paying keen attention to vulnerable communities — An urgent call from Resident Representative Kishan Khoday in his keynote at the 25th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture of National Environment & Planning Agency.

Nature recovery projects and plans are good✅. Nature at the centre of ALL recovery projects and plans is next level⬆️. The time to act is now.

This current phase of the rebuild effort presents an important opportunity to aim for a stronger, greener recovery, Khoday (2nd left) emphasizes.

The green recovery should prioritize the most vulnerable communities trying to recover from hurricane Melissa to strengthen their climate resilience to potential crises on the horizon.

📣📍A matters. When and how it’s integrated is key to optimizing impact for years to come.

🤞UNDP intends to build on its successful cooperation with 🇯🇲 on this agenda and stands shoulder to shoulder with Jamaica in charting the path forward for more resilient ecosystems and communities.

The Resident Representative lauded ’s Junior CEO for the Day programme and offered ’s support and partnership.

The NEPA Distinguished Lecture was convened under the theme: Recover Stronger, Recover Greener: Integrating Ecosystem Solutions in Post-Disaster Planning on World Environment Day and in observance of National Environmental Awareness Week (NEAW).

📸 NEPA photo
🔗 https://go.undp.org/ciZ

08/06/2026

‼️ and are staging a landmark consultation in Jamaica🇯🇲 to inform the development of a global Human Development Report (HDR), and you are invited.

🫵You can help shape UNDP’s global HDR 2026 as we explore the future of human development and planetary resilience, with Caribbean perspectives and lessons from Hurricane Melissa.

📍If you have an interest in disaster risk management, climate change and development, join us tomorrow

🗓️Tue 9 June 🕑
📍Executive Lecture Theatre, MSBM North, UWI Mona, 📱or online at Zoom: Meeting ID: 831 4305 1849 | Passcode: 445280

05/06/2026

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🗣️“As Jamaica rebuilds from Hurricane Melissa, we have an important opportunity to place nature at the centre of hurricane recovery efforts.

“Ecosystem-based solutions can help to reduce future disaster risks, protect livelihoods, and support a more resilient and sustainable path to development.

“As this year marks the 50th anniversary of UNDP’s Multi-Country Office in Jamaica, we build on our successful cooperation on this agenda over the years, and stand shoulder to shoulder with Jamaica🇯🇲.

“Together we will chart the path forward for more resilient ecosystems and communities” - 📣Kishan Khoday ResiNEPA Jamaicantative at ’s 25th anniversary Distinguished Lecture.

🔗📺 Watch the livestream 👉 bit.ly/43QkBNu