Webinar Recording Background COVID-19 has been a massive challenge for cities that are being tested with extremes of COVID-19 spread, with simultaneous health, social and economic crises. Cities and local authorities who are at the forefront of combatting

Session 1: Global Frameworks & Risk-informed Governance Session 2: Leveraging Frontier Technologies for DRR and Building Resilience Session 3: Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups in DRR Policy Design and Implementation to Build Resilience Session 4: Data &

The COVID-19 situation confirmed the close link between health and disaster risk reduction and has forced us to pay better attention to the health aspects of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030. In 2016, Thailand hosted an

Speakers: Mami Mizutori - UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction Steve Waygood - Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors Sirpa Pietikäinen - Member of the European Parliament Felix Suntheim - Financial

The United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is organizing periodic regional consultation workshops to review progress made, address challenges and issues faced and support the identification of remedial measures and solutions. Since the next

UNDRR and UNDP headquarters signed a Statement of Intent to cooperate in three priority areas of mutual interest, to accelerate the implementation of the UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Towards a Risk informed and Integrated

Webinar Systemic risk approach. COVID-19 and hurricane season Date: Tuesday, August 18th, 9:30 a.m. (Panama time) Participants: Mauricio Ramírez, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in the Dominican Republic Raúl Salazar, chief of UNDRR - Regional

UNDRR ROAMC, UNFCCC & IFRC Webinar: Strengthening Early Action Early Warning Systems Objective: Advocate for the implementation and improvement of early warning, early action in the region, especially as we are preparing for a gradual return to a new

The main objective of the webinar is to discuss the lessons learned in responding to COVID-19 by Arab cities and facilitate a city-to-city exchange among local governments on effective emergency preparedness and response that is sensitive to biological

Date: 27 July, 2020 Time: 13:00 GMT, 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 16:00 EAT Watch the recording Objective: The webinar will provide a platform to share information on COVID-19 preparedness, response and recovery efforts with a focus on lessons learned, good

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Africa and the African Union Commission are jointly organizing the first virtual meeting of the Africa Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction (AWGDRR) to be held on

Background A first IPU/UNDRR/WHO webinar for parliamentarians and parliamentary staff on COVID-19 was held on 28 April 2020. Based on the outcomes of the webinar and the feedback received from participants, a topic requiring further knowledge and