Events and meetings organized by UNDRR

UNDRR complements Member States’ efforts to implement the Sendai Framework through its continued support for an all-of-society multi-stakeholder approach. More specifically, UNDRR works with Member States to develop and implement their DRR strategies and DRR-related aspects of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks and Common Country Analyses.
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Nairobi
In person
Orientation to Local Level Disaster Risk Reduction and Making Cities Resilient in Africa
Orientation to Local Level Disaster Risk Reduction and Making Cities Resilient (in English, French and Portuguese) Looking beyond 2020, the MCR Campaign successor “Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)”, to be launched at the end of 2020, aims to
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Online
[UNDRR GETI, UNOSSC & PAHO Joint Online Training] Making Cities Resilient: Developing and implementing local disaster risk reduction strategy to respond to COVID-19 and to better prepare for the future
Background and Introduction Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters affected people living in developing countries and the most vulnerable communities
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Online
[UNDRR-UNOSSC-PAHO joint webinar] Cities experience and good practices on reopening and adjusting public health measures in response to COVID-19
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
Meetings and conferences
Nairobi
In person
Making Cities Resilient by Integrating Nature-Based Solutions into Urban Planning in Africa
Date: 30 September 2020 Time: 1 – 3 pm Nairobi|12 – 2pm Cape Town|11am - 1pm Abuja Link to the webinar: https://undrr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zksIltrOSzmV6rwxC29ICg Language: English, French and Portuguese available More than one half of the world’s
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Online
[UNDRR-KOICA] Joint Fellowship Program: Disaster Risk Reduction For Sustainable Development (The Philippines)
General Objective To increase capacity for national and local DRR strategy, plan development, monitoring and implementation by obtaining knowledge on policy frameworks, institutional and stakeholder collaborations and implementation approaches, including
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Online
[UNDRR GETI & UNDESA/DPIDG/UNPOG Online Training Workshop] Advancing Government Innovation and Leveraging Frontier Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction and Building Resilience
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 &
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Online
UNDRR ROAMC Webinar: #NoNaturalDisasters in the workplace
One might think that #NoNaturalDisasters campaign is relatively recent, but it has been around for literally centuries. Since the 18th century, to be precise, it was first recognized that the cause of a disaster was different from a natural process - or

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UNDRR works globally with governments, institutions, the private sector and civil society to build capacity to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into sustainable development.