UNDRR News

UNDRR advanced partnerships and local resilience action in Greece through multiple meetings and events in Athens, reinforcing collaboration on urban resilience, extreme heat, wildfire risk governance, and community engagement.

On the International Day in Memory of the Victims of Earthquakes, let us honour the victims by committing to building resilience for all.

In his three decades of responding to catastrophic events around the world, Kamal Kishore, head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, often observed a curious human tendency to overlook the invisible foundations of our safety.

Engineer Ayman Attia, Governor of Alexandria, attended today the launch event of the “Consortium for Alexandria,” which comes within the framework of supporting the Egyptian state’s efforts to enhance resilience to climate change and reduce disaster risks

As climate extremes intensify, one challenge stands out: acting early, before hazards become disasters. At HNPW 2026, UNDRR and partners explored how disaster impact data can drive smarter, anticipatory action.

In March 2026, São Tomé and Príncipe endorsed its EW4All roadmap to establish inclusive early warning systems. The roadmap benefited from the high-level political support and government ownership, paving the way to effectiveness and sustainability.

An important study set out to understand the real-world reach of Timor-Leste's early warning systems by surveying 909 households and conducting 27 focus group discussions across eight municipalities.

The 57th UN Statistical Commission endorsed the Global Disaster-Related Statistics Framework (G-DRSF), the first comprehensive global framework to strengthen how disaster statistics are defined, compiled, and used in national systems

Seychelles hosted a regional peer learning workshop from 18 to 20 January 2026 on building methodological foundations for national disaster tracking systems powered by DELTA-Resilience. Participants from Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar attended.

This month from UNDRR: Key developments from UNDRR's global work on disaster risk reduction, including progress on Early Warnings for All, data-driven approaches to resilience, and country-level action.