Geneva is a global hub for disaster prevention. The city hosts leaders from disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action, health, human rights, peace and security, and finance.
The Geneva Disaster Prevention Dialogues (GDPD), convened by UNDRR, capitalizes on this unique ecosystem of expertise. It creates a variety of spaces among policymakers, technical experts, and practitioners from Member States, the United Nations system, academia, science and technology, and stakeholder groups for regular policy exchange, sharing good practices, and developing transformative solutions. Together, they can accelerate the prevention agenda set out in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction before 2030.
Each Dialogue will focus on a different topic driving the disaster prevention agenda forward, ranging from recovery readiness, extreme heat, and localizing the prevention agenda to supply chain resilience, financing for prevention, and leveraging new and innovative technologies for prevention, to name a few.
The Geneva Disaster Prevention Dialogues will result in a suite of forward-looking policy recommendations and practical solutions to overcome lingering gaps and challenges in disaster prevention. The Dialogues will take forward the Geneva Call for Disaster Risk Reduction, the outcome document of the 2025 Global Platfform for Disaster Risk Reduction, and contribute to shaping the post‑2030 disaster risk reduction and sustainable development agendas.