UNDRR Publications

This publication explores how Pacific countries are advancing anticipatory action—acting before disasters strike—through early warning triggers, pre-arranged financing, and community-led preparedness to protect lives and livelihoods in a changing climate.

The World Tsunami Awareness Day 2025 Campaign is dedicated to advancing tsunami resilience through alignment with the Tsunami Ready Programme, a global initiative aimed at strengthening community resilience through awareness and preparedness strategies.

The theme for the 2025 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is "Fund Resilience, Not Disasters". This theme highlights the need to address the escalating costs of disasters by shifting focus from reactive response to proactive investments in DRR.

This document reflects on the progress, challenges, priorities and offers commitments of the African continent on the implementation of the Sendai Framework in connection to the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.

As the risk landscape and its understanding continuously evolve, it was recognized that the HIPs would need to be periodically updated to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of users and recognize the systemic nature of risk.

The 22nd session of the Africa Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction was held from 15 to 17 April 2025 in Kampala under the theme “Moving from commitments to action: delivering on priorities in the Windhoek Declaration”.

The HIPs serve as a trusted source of scientifically grounded, standardized hazard information used by governments, agencies, researchers and educators. They support risk assessment, disaster preparedness, loss tracking and multi-sectoral planning.

Disasters such as the recent floods in parts of Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania show that disaster risks must be further minimized and good disaster management by authorities and emergency organizations is essential

The webinar Early Warning Systems for Tsunami Preparedness and Response aimed to explore the evolution of tsunami preparedness in the two decades since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

This Risk Spotlight Common Country Analysis focuses on Kyrgyzstan.