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The Principles for Resilient Infrastructure describe a set of principles, key actions, and guidelines to create national scale net resilience gain and improve the continuity of critical services such as energy, transport, water, wastewater, waste, and digital communications, which enable health, education, etc. to function effectively. The Principles f…
This Words into Action guide aims to provide a practical overview of how traditional knowledges can be used to complement scientific knowledge in disaster risk reduction (DRR). This guide provides guidance in translating the Sendai Framework into credible and implementable actions for DRR with a focus on the application of traditional knowledge rather t…
This report documents the assessment of the status of national disaster loss databases in 13 countries and presents lessons to guide the next generation of disaster loss accounting systems (DLAS). Monitoring disaster loss and damage is an integral part of risk governance, humanitarian programming, and public and private investments. Disasters…
These are the proceedings of the seventh session of the Global Platform (GP2022). The GP2022 was organized and convened by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) from 23 to 28 May 2022, in Bali, Indonesia, hosted by the Government of Indonesia. The event was co-chaired by the Government of Indonesia and UNDRR. The UN General Assembly recogni…
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the Republic of the Marshall Islands under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence with key global frameworks and provides r…
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Under the auspices of the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay as host country and the cooperation of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the VIII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean, will be held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from February 28 to March 2, 2023. The VIII Region…
The results-based, climate-smart 2021- 2025 Guyana Country Work Programme (CWP) is a systematic way to address Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) at the country level, while fulfilling Guyana’s commitments to the regional CDM Strategy 2014 – 2024 and the international Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (S…
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Issue 9 of the UNDRR Regional Office for Arab States Newsletter is out covering the period of January – June 2022 under the titles: •    Regional Collaborations •    News and Events •    Publications •    Media Center
The objective of this contributing paper is to highlight how systemic risk, as other risk categories, are socially constructed, and to identify guiding principles for systemic risk governance that could be actionable by and provide entry points for local and national governments, civil society and the private sector particularly in low- and middle-incom…
This contributing paper systemically explores creative practices across a variety of disciplines, such as visual art, design, cinema, and theatre, that imagine future states and can aid in disaster prevention and risk reduction. It first examines the consequences of failures of the imagination in the context of disaster planning. It outlines the pr…
This contributing paper looks into the use of disaster science in policy making for urban systems, where major risks need to be managed by bringing together emergency management, organisational resilience and climate change adaptation. This study applies the theory of cascading, interconnected and compound risk to the practice of preparing for…
This contributing paper takes a look at the use of radio occultation to infer temperature and improve modeling for wildfire risk. Retrieving good-quality measurements of vertical profiles of atmospheric parameters (moisture, wind, temperature, and vertical information of aerosols) in wildfire events remains an extremely challenging endeavor. Global…
This contributing paper summarizes the seismic risk analysis of Mexico City, based on a detailed database constructed with information provided by the city but also with tools such as geomatics and machine learning. The most unfavorable seismic scenarios and structural characteristics that decrease the resilience of the city are shown. The objectiv…
This contributing paper examines the interplay between official adaptive social protection (ASP) and grassroots efforts based on a case study of the rural reconstruction and recovery that took place after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China. Previous research has broadly demonstrated that these grassroots efforts have, to a certain extent, re…
The purpose of this contributing paper is to demonstrate scalable and replicable methods to advance and integrate the use of Earth observations, specifically ongoing efforts within the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Work Programme and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Work Plan, to support risk-informed decision making, based on documente…

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