Led by ESCAP and implemented in collaboration with various partners, this project aims to strengthen the capacity of selected countries in Asia and the Pacific to mitigate the impacts of climate-related risks on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The two major expected accomplishments are, at the regional scale, strengthened knowledge repository to enhance policy coherence for disaster risk reduction and resilience building in selected Asia-Pacific countries, and within the targeted high-risk countries, enhanced knowledge and capacity to operationalize policy coherence for disaster risk reduction and resilience-building. At the end of the project, it is expected that target countries have (i) deepened their understanding of climate-related risk vis-à-vis the SDGs; (ii) strengthened institutional arrangements and regional cooperation frameworks to conduct and produce actionable risk assessments, more effective early warning systems and to communicate the results for policymaking; and (iii) strengthened the capacities of their development planning, finance and SDG implementation bodies to implement risk-informed SDG plans, programmes and investments. While the approach is regional, the project will focus on five countries that are facing a convergence of disaster risk and critical social and economic vulnerabilities. One country in every ESCAP subregion will receive in-depth technical support under the project, namely Armenia (Central Asia), Mongolia (East and North-East Asia), Myanmar (South-East Asia), Pakistan (South and South-West Asia) and Papua New Guinea (Pacific). The project will support countries to enhance their access to emerging technologies and innovations in data and information including effective early warning systems and services and will provide in-depth technical and advisory support and opportunities for regional knowledge exchange and learning. Each country will be also supported to demonstrate how a specific risk-informed policy instrument, tool, mechanism, or investment could better contribute to ‘leaving no one behind,’ the overarching goal of the SDGs.