UNDRR News

This month's issue covers preparations for International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2026, SRSG Kamal Kishore's mission to Cuba, Colombia and Haiti, new data tracking progress under the Sendai Framework and more inside.

The national implementation plan for 2024–2027 covers the four pillars of early warning systems, under the coordination of the Directorate General of Civil Protection. Progress to date includes the first tests of mobile alerts.

The advisory note,“El Niño Is Strengthening. Is Your Business Ready?”, developed by CCRO Network members and contributors to help business leaders prepare for the growing risks associated with the strengthening El Niño event.

Under the theme “Translating Locally led Resilience into Action in the Age of Complex Risk and Digital Transformation”, IDRLF2026 addressed persistent implementation gaps for DRR with more than 350 stakeholders.

Civil Defence, meteorological and hydrological services, communications, and urban planning have operated for decades as an integrated system, with clearly defined roles and joint working mechanisms consolidated through practice.

UNDRR's Regional Office for Arab States convened National Focal Points to introduce a new tool for assessing and strengthening the resilience of interconnected critical infrastructure across the region.

Officially reported data by national governments through the Sendai Framework Monitor show significant progress in reducing disaster mortality, strengthening disaster risk reduction strategies and expanding multi-hazard early warning systems.

The Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence in Tajikistan, with the support of ESCAP-APDIM and UNDRR, held a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop on the development of a National Framework for Inclusive Disaster Risk Data Governance.

It provided a platform to take stock of Syria’s existing early warning capacities, identify institutional, technical and operational gaps, strengthen coordination between national and local actors, and align ongoing initiatives.

A national flood-risk profile puts a price on every year of delay — and shows that USD 380 million of defences pays for itself within nine year