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Displaying 15 of about 55 resultsWATCH MORE RECORDINGS HEREDate and time Wednesday 19 April 2023, 07:00am EDT (Washington DC) AboutThe first webinar, led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), will focus on risk-informed urban development and planning processes in cities/municipaliti…
This report contributes to deepening our collective understanding of the potential role of DRR within the HDP nexus; a gap identified as part of the consultative processes leading up to the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework. We do not focus here on the challenges and barriers to action. Drawing on an extensive review of published material as well…
BRUSSELS, 28 November 2022 – High level representatives from Central Asian states, the European Union, United Nations and other key stakeholders met to assess a regional climate resilience project which saw the development of a joint Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Asia, the first ever such collaboration in one of the world’s most climat…
Event Date, Time & Venue
Date: 31 October - 01 November 2022
Time: 14:00-18:00 hrs.
Venue: Hybrid - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Zoom.
Organizers
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mongolia
UNDRR Office for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)
Making Cities Resil…
Webinar Recording
Course Description
One of the key gaps of local governments in accessing financial resources for implementation of disaster and climate resilience actions is the lack of capacity in preparing bankable projects. This one-hour training aims to provide foundational knowledge on project preparation. It wil…
Organizers
UNDRR Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), through the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) and its project office - United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG)
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITA…
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…
This study delves into multilateral and systemic disruption of critical infrastructure (CI) networks to assess the systemic resilience of CI “network-of-networks”. The study defines systemic resilience as the stability and reliability of the entire public services provided by the network-of-networks of CI. Consequently, this study proposes a r…
This contributing paper analyses systemic risk and compound vulnerabilities, by highlighting a case study to help decision-makers formulate effective strategies to address the nature of systemic risks in their societies. The researchers put a spotlight on several risks and propose actions and policy recommendations. These spotlights include i) extreme w…
This contributing paper aims to assess how risk, as generally used and developed over several centuries, may not appropriate for the complex systemic and cascading threats now being faced. The refinement of the concept and its application has been about increased precision and accuracy. It argues that global systemic risks do not lend themselves to…
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.…
23-25 May 2023 – In accordance with UNDRR Regional Office for Arab States concerted effort to enhance disaster risk management in Somalia, a comprehensive Training Workshop on Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Systemic Risk Modelling was conducted in Cairo, Egypt. The workshop aimed to strengthen the country's capacity to analyze interconnected and syst…
The theatre of action and opportunity for solutions in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals has ‘firmly gravitated towards urban centres’. Many of these solutions will be found through policymakers and their partners adopting a more ‘systems-based’ rather than linear approaches to build and maintain more resilient and sustainable cities. Th…
There is growing evidence that the worst-case scenario at a global scale – an existential risk – is increasingly likely and driven by technological development. The concerns of this report are biotechnology and artificial intelligence, as major drivers of accelerating change. Importantly, both existential risk and technological hazards are within the sc…
Event Date & Venue
Date: 16 February 2023
Venue: UNDRR Global Education and Training Institute (GETI). Incheon, Republic of Korea
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Organizers
UNDRR Office for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)
Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS)
Course Background
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