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Watch recording Time 14:00 – 17:30 (JST) About Building on the three previous World Tsunami Museum Conferences, the Fourth World Tsunami Museum Conference (WTMC4) will be held at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan with a focus on “Roles of Youth and Tsunami Museums for resili…
Through a new Risk Information Exchange (RiX) platform, UNDRR is helping to bring humanitarian and development partners together to analyse and address risk factors that would impact relief and development operations. The platform was first rolled out in South Sudan, aggregating information on hazards, exposure and vulnerability, across a broad range o…
28 November 2022, The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) introduced the Real Estate Resilience Tool, which provides guidance to owners, investors, and developers to facilitate the shift from disaster risk management to disaster risk reduction. UNDRR and FIABCI signed a global…
Register here Time 09:00 (Panama)   About   The challenge Some one billion people around the world live with some form of disability. In every disaster, a disproportionate number of persons with disabilities suffer and die. Local disaster prevention measures are regularly designed and implemented without including persons with disabilit…
On 15-17 November 2022, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reducion (UNDRR), in partnership with the UN Resident Coordinator Office and the national strategic entity (Committee for Emergency Prevention and Management – CPGU) and operational entity (National Office for Risk and Disaster Management – BNGRC) for disaster management hosted the firs…
Climate and disaster risk are intrinsically linked across Africa, including in Tanzania and Madagascar, which recently carried out Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI) country diagnoses. Tanzania is vulnerable to recurrent disasters. The most prevalent hazards over the past 20 years period are floods, epidemics, earthquakes, drought and s…
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The sixth feature in this Making Cities Resilient 2030 series, under the theme ‘From Risk to Resilience: Building a Local Climate of Success’, profiles Campinas, in Brazil Campinas’ decision to get on the front foot to address its climate risk has resulted in the number of city districts at risk from flooding and landslides reducing from 75 to 30 – a d…
Sharm El-Sheikh, 12 November 2022, The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Arab States, and the UN Resident Coordinator Office in the United Arab Emirates hosted a side event at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh under the title “Urban Resilience and Climate Change Roadmap” addressing climate parity between adaptation and mitiga…
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Two city leaders on the frontline of efforts to reduce climate and disaster risk firmly believe that building resilience is ‘absolutely doable and achievable’ even in such a period of unprecedented uncertainty. Their positive conclusion is even more uplifting considering the challenges Wroclaw, in Poland, and Kampala, in Uganda, currently face. In the…
November 10, SHARM-EL-SHEIK – A new initiative to improve the understanding of climate and disaster risk in humanitarian and fragile contexts, was announced today at COP27 in Egypt at a side event organized by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). UNDRR is supporting Governments and the United Nations bringing together humanitarian and dev…
During the recent Sustainability Week in El Salvador, organized by FUNDEMAS -a member of ARISE (the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies) and its focal point in El Salvador-, the Quick Guide for Planning for Business Model Innovations for Disaster Risk Reduction (available only in Spanish: Guía rápida para planeación de innovaciones…
In March 2022, United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, announced the UN would spearhead new action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by early warning systems within five years. The World Meteorological Organization was tasked to lead this effort and present an action plan to achieve the goal at the UN Climate Change Conference in…
Moroni, Comoros, 11- 12 October 2022, The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Arab States, organized the first consultative workshop on National Disaster Risk Reduction Platform and National DRR Strategy in Comoros, in collaboration with the General Directorate for Civil Security (DGSC) and the UN Country Team in Comor…
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25 October 2022, DUBROVNIK – Heads of Disaster Management Authorities, as well as international organisations, gathered for a High-Level Roundtable discussion to open the 3-day workshop on ‘Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction in South-Eastern Europe’ today in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The workshop, which is part of a series of ‘European Roadmap for Disast…

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