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At the UN Water Conference, UNDRR calls for transformative water action to address water related risks.

Effective risk communication should consider the psychological, social, cultural and political forces influencing how people comprehend, perceive, and react to risk.

Indonesia's Cidanau Watershed is long-running example of a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) scheme, and shows how polycentric governance can work – with political will from all actors, a common legal framework and higher-level governance support.

UNDRR participated in the LDC5 conference, hosted by Qatar on 5-9 March 2023, to emphasize the centrality of disaster risk reduction to the resilience and development of LDCs.

Frontline health and disaster management professionals and academics from 8 countries have made a series of recommendations to strengthen public health systems in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and other potential health emergencies

Cities that understand their climate risk are in a better position to manage it. MCR2030 service provider DHI relates how it is supporting the Czech city of Brno and its surrounding area to manage drought risk

UNDRR gathered inter-governmental bodies, academia, practitioners, and scientists on 8 March 2023 to establish and launch the Africa Network of Centres of Excellence for Disaster Risk Reduction (NoE). 

UNDRR ROAS organized a 4-day national workshop in Sudan on Sendai Framework Monitor & Disaster Loss Accounting System to train participants on Disaster Loss and Damage Database through introducing "DesInventar-Sendai" system software and its methodology.

The competition aimed to demonstrate that data is not just for experts and scientists but should be available for local communities on the front line of disasters to understand and act accordingly.

Held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, more than 1,000 people attended the first in-person RP forum since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an additional 2,000 people following events virtually.