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Displaying 15 of about 135 resultsThis issue highlights UNDRR ONEA & GETI activities in Q1, 2024 including: Korean School Safety Programme in schools of Nepal; training for managers of ASEAN member states; Bangkok city building up a team for resilience assessment; CJK and ASEAN youth engagement; private sector training for Fiji Airways staff; Oman learning from Incheon as MCR2030 Re…
This policy brief explores challenges faced in the integration of risk considerations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Risk mirrors today’s interconnected world, increasingly assuming a systemic nature, as demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency. Actions in one system can create or reduce risk for another…
Issue 10 of the UNDRR Regional Office for Arab States Newsletter is out covering the period of July – December 2022 under the titles:
UNDRR ROAS at COP27
Regional Collaborations
News and Events
Publications
Media Center
Social Media Campaigns
This 2021 UN Plan of Action Progress Report presents the summary of progress with regard to the three Commitments of the UN Plan of Action, based on the Results Framework, as reported by UN organizations for the year 2021. The UN Plan of Action is an important tool to maximize the joint impact of UN System action in support of countries to strengthen di…
This is the Co-Chair summary of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR). Participants re-affirmed their commitment to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which lies at the nexus of sustainable development, climate and humanitarian agendas, and is an enabler of the 2030 Agenda for Sustaina…
This is the Caribbean subregional report produced by UNDRR Regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean to inform the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. The Caribbean Midterm Review of the implementation of the Sendai Framework (MTR SF) has been developed in close collaboration with…
UNDRR developed a water survey to collect water community views, experiences and proposals to inform the Sendai Framework and Water Action Decade MTRs. Between 7 June and 16 September 2022, 20 responses were received to the water survey, including from UN-Water members and observers.
The objective of the water community survey was to collect water comm…
This contributing paper presents a mapping tool that connects the seven World Meteorological Organization (WMO) state of the climate indicators to climate change impacts and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although there is emerging scientific literature on climate change, risk and policy action, the interdisciplinary nature of…
UNDRR - Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT 2021
Key achievements across the region
This policy brief explores the challenges faced in financing disaster prevention and de-risking investment. Total insured losses from natural hazards and human-induced disasters in 2020 was estimated at $187 billion, up by 25 percent from 2019. Indirect socio-economic costs of disasters are many times greater. And we have only a scant understanding of t…
This scoping report provides insights on how strengthening the connection between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) could reinforce efforts to enhance the protection of persons with disabilities in disaster risk situations.
It looks into article 11 of the CRP…
This Briefing Note represents an integrated perspective of climate, environmental and disaster risk science and practice regarding systemic risk. It provides an overview of the concepts of systemic risk that have evolved over time and identifies commonalities across terminologies and perspectives associated with systemic risk used in different contexts.…
The VII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean was held under the theme “Building resilient economies in the Americas and the Caribbean”. The event took place at a pivotal time, as populations across the world looked towards social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, as countries convened at the COP…
The case study aims to enhance the understanding of policy design and implementation practices in support of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), identify good practice examples and provide recommendations to advance coherence between DRR and CCA practices in Uganda. The case study also aims at gaining a better understandin…
This contributing paper examines how different constituent systems (sibling systems) of a larger system react and propagate reverberations affecting the overall system using a novel visualisation tool – Sibling System State Diagram (SSSD). The tools that are currently used to assess disaster risk have major limitations, like the inability to model…