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ASEAN Region Consultation on the Zero Draft of the Asia-Pacific Action Plan 2021-2024 Background The current regional Action Plan (2018-2021) of the Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is coming to a close and work is underway to develop a new action plan, the Asia-Pacific Action Pla…
View Recording Here   Countries that are graduating from the least developed category often face the same climate and disaster risks they faced before graduation, while financing remains a challenge. Considering that development pathways that are not informed by disaster risks could inadvertently create new risks, graduating countries risk to los…
To improve the methodology for conducting disaster risk reduction (DRR) public expenditure reviews, UNDRR is convening a number of stakeholders to discuss commonalities between DRR and climate change adaptation (CCA) across sectoral budgets to converge these methodologies. A methodology that brings together both DRR and CCA concerns could be useful to o…
Watch Recording Friday 27 August 2021 10:00 - 11:15 Bangkok time   The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted risk communication as a crucial element in the process of risk management as it enables the public to recognize disaster risks, understand their roles in reducing that risk and engage with protection measures. In many instances, effective ri…
As the most disaster-prone region, the Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW) 2021 wrapped up on Friday 9 July with a strong recognition of the region’s potential to lead on resilience building against the impacts of climate change in conjunction with an increased commitment to shift to low-carbon economies. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduct…
Watch recording   Asia-Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world, and increasingly, those disasters are occurring in urban settings.  Cities face multiple hazards that threaten their social and economic development, these include storms, floods, heatwaves, earthquakes, and of course, pandemics. Co-created by 11 international org…
For countries in Asia-Pacific graduating from least-developed category, the COVID-19 pandemic has added a new dimension to their risk levels, worsening the impacts of multiple crises, exacerbating inequalities and threatening to roll-back progress against achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the 2021 Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable…

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