UNDRR News

The latest news from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the lead UN agency for the coordination of disaster risk reduction (DRR).

Statements and messages
Remarks by SRSG Mizutori at the General Debate of the Commission on the Status of Women

A few weeks ago, the IPCC released their latest report with unsettling findings. Disasters, which have doubled over the last 20 years, could conceivably double again.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Press release
Sendai Framework 7th anniversary: Disasters do not need to devastate – 2022 is a year to change course

Disasters are rapidly increasing around the globe and the world is not on track to meet its commitments as set out in the 2015 Sendai Framework by 2030. The evidence shows beyond any dispute that disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation work.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Costa Rica avanza con pasos firmes en su conocimiento del riesgo sistémico
Update
Costa Rica is making firm progress in its knowledge of systemic risk

The application of GRAF is aimed at strengthening the capacity of countries to better access and apply risk-related data, integrating data about threats, vulnerability and exposure.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Women's empowerment programme in Jordan
Update
Amplifying the voices of women: Towards a gender-responsive midterm review of the Sendai Framework

UNDRR and partners hosted a Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) side event in New York on the importance of a gender-responsive midterm review of the Sendai Framework, and amplifying the voices of women working in disaster risk reduction.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - New York UNHQ Liaison Office
A wide view of the General Assembly Hall as Secretary-General António Guterres (on screens) addresses the opening of the sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
Update
UNDRR at the 2022 Commission on the Status for Women (CSW66)

It's the first time that DRR has been considered within the Priority Theme of the CSW: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Update
European Union-UNDRR project helps to improve Turkmenistan’s resilience to disaster threats

On 23 February 2022, UNDRR, with the financial support of the European Union, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence of Turkmenistan, convened an expert-level meeting with members of the National Platform for DRR at the UN House.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Haiti earthquake 2010
Update
All disaster risk is systemic, all disaster impact is systemic...but what does it mean?

Disaster risk has always been systemic and understanding risk in those terms must become the ‘new normal'. No single approach is adequate, given the complex and uncertain nature of risk; instead, 'toolbox approaches' are needed

International Science Council (ISC)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Risk-KAN Working Groups
Launch of Women's Leadership in DRR
Update
Launch of Women’s Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction (Examples from the Arab States)

The UNDRR Regional Office for the Arab States launched the Women’s Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Publication in commemoration of Women’s International Day.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
Famed Non-Violence Sculpture at UN Headquarters
Statements and messages
Statement on Ukraine by Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction

I express my solidarity with the people of Ukraine and call for an immediate cessation of hostilities. This escalating violence -- which is resulting in civilian deaths, including children – is totally unacceptable.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
tour of AUC sitroom
Update
Italy and partners handover Situation Room to African Union Commission

On 28 February 2022, the official handover ceremony for the Africa Multi-hazard Early Warning and Early Action System (AMHEWAS) Situation Room for Disaster Risk Reduction took place

African Union Commission
Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
CIMA Foundation - Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

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