Author(s): Lisa Kirtz, Juanita Schmidhammer, Luise Richter This publication intends to inspire policy- and decision-makers as well as practitioners by showcasing a selection of 20 solutions that have been applied in very different settings and
Source United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Authors: William Lehman Miles K. Light Richard J. Nugent III et al. This contributing paper explains how indirect economic impacts are computed, the necessary input data, and
Author: Duncan Macqueen This training programme provides an outline for a refresher course on two toolkits that have been developed to support practitioners in improving business incubation and risk management processes – plus adding a
When: Monday, 23 May, 2022 – Tuesday, 24 May, 2022 / Hybrid Online and Bali Indonesia Organizer(s): Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the United Nations Development Programme – Headquarters United Nations Office for
Explore for case studies, challenges and best practices to ensure the full participation of persons with disabilities in disaster risk reduction.
Author(s): United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Asia-Pacific Scientific and Technology Advisory Group (AP-STAG) A regional status review was also provided for seven strategic themes, including (1) Science and synergies: sustainable development, climate change
Date: 15 June 2022, 09:00 – 17:30 (GMT +2) The EC Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC) in collaboration with DG ECHO is organizing a virtual training session on the Risk Data Hub on the
When: 23 May 2022 – 28 May 2022 The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk
Authors: Anna Ford Vincent Casey Rik Goverde et al. Currently, millions of people across the globe don’t have safe water to drink. As climate change continues to wreak havoc, communities will see their homes and means
When: 4 May 2022 – 6 May 2022 The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) is CDRI’s flagship event bringing together policymakers, researchers and practitioners from across the world to strengthen the global discourse
When: April 4, 2022 1:15-2:45 pm Brussels Time Cities around the world are battling the Covid-19 pandemic against a backdrop of various shocks, pressures, and rising vulnerabilities, all while attempting to prioritise justice, the economy,
The objective of the Platform on Disaster Displacement is to follow-up on the work started by the Nansen Initiative, and to implement the recommendations of the Protection Agenda, a toolbox to better prevent and prepare
When: 16 March 2022 / 08:00-10:00 EST A side event at the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women on the theme “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and
This report highlights 2021 global natural hazards and helps quantify and qualify how topics such as climate change, socioeconomics, and other emerging issues are driving new and emerging types of risk. The data, statistics, and
There is rising awareness that disasters affect all genders differently and this is confirmed by recent research by UN Women and UNICEF. Women and girls were found to die in greater numbers and have different and uneven
Dates: 16-17 March 2022 The pandemic has had a deep and profound impact throughout Southeast Asia. Many of the region’s hard-won gains in reducing poverty, creating jobs, and enhancing health and wellbeing have been reversed,
Date: 28 February 2022 – 11 March 2022 Online The first Weather and Society Conference is being organised by the Societal and Economic Research Applications (SERA) Working Group of the WMO World Weather Research Program
By: Minh Tran, Stockholm Environment Institute This brief provides a qualitative and descriptive analysis that shows the connections between disaster risk reduction and health, in existing policies at the regional and sub-regional levels in Asia
By: Morgan Richmond, June Choi, Rajashree Padmanabhi et al. This report provides an overview of existing adaptation finance flows in Africa and identifies opportunities to increase the volume and efficacy of that finance. Current adaptation
By: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean The Caribbean faces a long road to recovery after the pandemic rocked the region, devastating its vital tourism
A collection of publications and reports examining how physical climate risk has emerged as a prominent threat to the financial sector and the global economy. Understanding investments exposure to risk from climate hazards is a
This checklist is a companion tool to the Words into Action Guideline Disaster Displacement: How to Reduce Risk, Address Impacts and Strengthen Resilience (Words into Action on Disaster Displacement) published by the United Nations Office
Date: 8 February 2022 – 10 February 2022 Registration: 1 December 2021 – 31 January 2022 Losses from extreme weather events increased globally over the last decades and are expected to further increase in the
By: Juan Jose Miranda, Luigi Butron, Chrissie Pantoja et al. This study quantifies the effects of hurricane windstorms on economic activity using nightlight as a proxy at the highest spatial resolution data available (1 square
Date: 17 December 2021 Time: 10:00-11:30 Caribbean Time (AST) This webinar aims to provide an overview of the comprehensive climate and disaster risk management (CRM) and to introduce a course to capacitate participants on CRM that
This paper was commissioned by the IFRC and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre as an update of a first scan of the overlapping impacts of COVID-19 and climate-related disasters in September 2020, complemented
Date: 20 October 2021 Time: 15:30 – 17:00 CEST The COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis has demonstrated that governments are critically under-prepared to tackle the systemic nature of risk and are underinvesting in and under-prioritizing
By: Lara Mani, Asaf Tzachor & Paul Cole Globalisation supports the clustering of critical infrastructure systems, sometimes in proximity to lower-magnitude (VEI 3–6) volcanic centres. In this emerging risk landscape, moderate volcanic eruptions might have
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Time: Oct 13, 2021 11:00 AM in Panama(International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction) Core Topics Disaster risk and unsustainable development processes The privatization of benefits and the socialization of risks
This report discusses how Implicit contingent liabilities, such as those generated by natural disasters, are often not quantified in the government balance sheet. However, when they materialize, they place pressure on government finances that may
Date: 16 September 2021 Time: from 12:00 – 13:00 in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna The climate emergency is the biggest economic, social, and environmental threat facing the planet and humanity today. We are at
Words into Action (WiA) are a series of guidelines, based on global expertise, communities of practice, and networks of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) practitioners. The guidelines provide practical, specific advice on implementing a people-centered approach
Whilst the rest of the world dealt with second rounds of lockdowns and social distancing restrictions remained in place, in early December of 2020, the streets of Port Vila, Vanuatu seemed to be a world
State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 represents the first multi-agency effort involving National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), WMO Regional Climate Centres (RCCs), research institutions, and international and regional organizations.
Date: 15 September 2021 (Wed)Time: 9:30 New Delhi | 11:00 Bangkok | 13:00 Incheon/Tokyo | 16:00 Suva Duration: 1 hour Disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies can help guide cities towards sound actions to improve disaster resilience. As
Disasters can damage or entirely destroy bridges and cause widespread destruction and social mayhem. But factoring risk into design and maintenance can help ensure the safety of the millions of people who cross bridges on
Date: 1 November – 4 November 2021 The Government of Jamaica, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management
COVID-19 does not discriminate, but its impact does. As the pandemic exacerbates existing vulnerabilities, inequalities, poverty and exclusion also impair efforts to contain the outbreak. In this collection of resources find publications, news stories, and
Date: 23 September 2021 (Thu)Time: 10:30 London | 11:30 Geneva/Cairo | 12:30 Nairobi | 16:30 Bangkok | 17:30 Beijing | 18:30 Incheon Event Description Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has joined the programme Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030),
Date: 30 Aug – 02 Sep 2021 Humanity’s greatest societal, technological and political challenges are exposed at the intersection of science and policy, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made them even more visible. From increasing
Date: 23-27 August World Water Week is the leading conference on global water issues and in 2021 it will be held as a digital event 23-27 August. The Week attracts participants from more than 130 countries and with many different professional
Date: 28 July 2021 (Wed)Time: 9:00 London | 10:00 Geneva | 15:00 Bangkok | 17:00 IncheonDuration: 1.5 hours Organizers:• European Investment Bank (EIB)• Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM)• World Bank (WB)• UNDRR Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)• Making
Date: July 20 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (BST) The production of food faces multiple, significant challenges, none more so than adapting to a changing climate, with higher global temperatures, more droughts, less reliable
Date: Jul 14, 2021 05:00 PM in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi (13:30 – 14:45 (CET)) ‘Disaster Risk Finance for Public Infrastructure Assets in the Developing World: Opportunities and Challenges’ is the first dialogue in the
Date: 13 July 2021, 15:00-16:30 (Japan Time, GMT+9) Despite continued efforts by member countries to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), the damage caused by disasters has increased in recent years due
Date: 12 Jul 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 BST The UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP) will be delivering a series of regional webinars, aimed at promoting our projects’ capabilities and outcomes/impacts across climate change,
Date: 17 June 2021, 15:00 CEST Droughts have deep, widespread and underestimated impacts on societies, ecosystems, and economies. They incur costs that are borne disproportionately by the most vulnerable people. The extensive impacts of drought
There is limited actionable guidance on how the rural sanitation and hygiene sector can make systemic changes through planning and implementing project delivery, enabling demand, changing behaviour, addressing social norms, monitoring and evaluation, and more
Date: 21-24 June 2021 The theme of this year’s symposium is Strengthening inclusive partnerships across the GEO Work Programme (GWP). The aim of the Symposium is to share successful practices and identify ways to accelerate the delivery
Date and Time: June 15, 2021 (Tuesday)18:00-19:30 (JST) GMT+9 The discussions of the first seminar focus on “Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for a Resilient Society” to offer insights that contribute to governments and stakeholders’
The importance of setting up mechanisms to ensure collaboration and coordination of work on disaster-related statistics across disciplines and organizations has been recognized on national and international level, including the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC)
We cannot reduce risk effectively if we cannot measure disaster losses. Find a collection of reports, data, and articles on measuring disaster losses and stocktaking challenges and best practices.
Date: 20 May 2021, 12:00 – 13:30 CEST Climate disasters and extreme weather conditions along with the secondary effects of climate change like food insecurity and violent conflicts are expected to raise the numbers of
THE DATE: Thursday 20 May 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 Geneva time The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre is pleased to invite you to the virtual launch of our flagship report, the 2021 Global Report on Internal
Cities and their residents are at the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of humanity live in urban settings. Conditions in cities have fanned the pandemic and the pandemic has deeply impacted cities.
May 10, 2021 – h. 11:00 am CEST Recently, at the European scale, research and innovation initiatives have been launched to address challenges and options for NbS, in relation to climate change adaptation and disaster
As the world is grappling with the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, many communities are experiencing the impact of compounded disasters, with COVID-19 and natural hazards stretching resources and testing coping capacities. Building
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their best, cities have enabled people to advance socially and economically. Now that half of the world’s population live in
This Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2021 side event highlights the challenges faced by and opportunities available to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) that have recently graduated or are in the process of graduating from
The CII has been active in Africa for decades, working with partners including affiliated institutes, training colleges, regulators, major employers and many more. Recent activities have included: Collaboration with our affiliated institute in Uganda on
Women’s leadership brings essential knowledge, skills, resources and experience to emergency response and resilience building. When women are involved in the development and implementation of COVID-19 response plans they are more likely to consider the
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the close link between health and disaster risk reduction. This calls for a reflection on past practices, current capacities and plans for increasing investments to strengthen implementation of International
The Bath Spa University (UK) ‘Hazard, Risk and Disaster’ Research Lecture Series 2020-2021, brings international speakers together with an audience to discuss the latest research, policy and practice, addressing DRR and climate change adaptation themes.
Co-organised by the Pacific Resilience Partnership’s Technical Working Group (TWG) on Human Mobility and the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement Every year, more than 50,000 people in the Pacific are forced to flee
This report shares highlights from this work, to document and share the approaches that have worked as countries navigate their often challenging—but absolutely critical—National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes. The NAP Global Network hopes to use
Access to finance remains one of the biggest hurdles to reducing risk and build resilience. This webinar aims to introduce useful tools and resources to enhance local governments’ capacity in developing bankable projects for financing
Our planet is getting warmer, which has a growing impact on our societies and economies. We need to adapt to a new, more extreme climate. The online international Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021 on 25
Social protection systems and programmes can strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable to disasters and climate shocks. This collection of reports and studies has over 50 items to read and learn from.
This compendium compiles Good Practices on Post Disaster Recovery, to disseminate and highlight the work and recovery processes that are being carried out in different countries of the following regions: Africa, Asia, East Europe (ECIS)
The International Recovery Forum 2021 will feature discussions on lessons for governance, planning, financing, and other key areas which can be applied to the COVID-19 recovery. Building on the IRP COVID-19 Recovery Policy Brief, panelists
PreventionWeb’s collection of frameworks, case studies, and tools for measuring resilience.
This virtual event will feature Sasakawa Award winner and Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister of India, Dr. P.K. Mishra, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori; and other high-level participants
Informal settlements are usually comprised of vulnerable populations and experience greater disaster damages. These resources explore how these settlements exacerbate risk and management efforts.
Urban safety is a fundamental value that supports citizens’ lives and urban competitiveness. During recent natural and social disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening urban resilience has emerged as a critical policy task. Global environmental
PDN is an online platform for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change documents, reports, alerts, data, projects and professionals for the Pacific region. The platform is an ongoing live service provided by Pacific Community (SPC),
Detailed disaster loss data for more than 89 countries is available. Data can be searched by disaster type, country, province, and municipality.
EM-DAT compiles essential core data on the occurrence and effects of mass disasters in the world from 1900 to the present day. The database is managed by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), drawing from various
Social protection systems and programmes can strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable to disasters and climate shocks. PreventionWeb’s collection of resources and reports regarding regions around the world can assist in learning about the
When: 19 November 2020, 09:00 GMT The African Development Bank’s Clim-Dev Africa Special Fund (CDSF) invites you to a webinar to discuss the opportunities and constraints around improved flood forecasting and early warning systems in
COVID-19 is more than a global health crisis – it is an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, a security crisis, and a human rights crisis. The pandemic illustrates how the nature of risk has changed:
The International Recovery Platform (IRP) is a global partnership working to strengthen knowledge, and share experiences and lessons on building back better in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. It is a joint initiative of United Nations
A collection of global reports on the human and economic impacts of disasters. Topics covered range from Covid-19 and tropical cyclones to internal displacement and storm surges.
Disasters affect women, girls, boys and men differently. From life expectancy to education, health, safety, job security and nutrition, women are disproportionately impacted by disasters, including climate-related disasters and pandemics. Women’s exposure and vulnerability are
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is pleased to announce the “United Nations International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction – ‘Lessons learned during the unprecedented pandemic situation”, to be held
Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters have affected people living in developing countries and, in particular, the most
Tsunamis are, thankfully, rare events, but they do happen. They are often more sudden and deadly than any other hazard, claiming thousands of lives and causing massive economic losses in just a few minutes, with
Latin America and the Caribbean was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which arrived on the back of years of disappointing economic growth and limited social progress, and after a wave of social unrest. This
Professor Ilan Kelman will join us on 20th October 2020 to talk about how our actions and the choices we make, would turn natural hazards into catastrophes. Professor Ilan Kelman is the author of #DisasterByChoice.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated 13 October as International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction to promote a global culture of disaster risk reduction. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made
The Natural Hazards – Nature-based Solutions platform is a hub for projects, investments, guidance and studies making use of nature to reduce the risks associated with natural hazards. Our objective is to host and facilitate
Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged economies small and big – a socio-economic disaster unseen before in the modern globalised world. With global travel grinding to a halt, tourism-dependent nations are not only
The Australian Disaster Resilience Conference presents Knowledge Week will be taking place virtually. Knowledge Week will be held over the course of four days (24 – 27 August 2020), with a variety of sessions and special
World Bank Group learning platform which also includes topics on disaster risk finance. Access development topics through online courses that are customized to your needs. Dive into their catalog of virtually facilitated and self-paced courses
Early warning systems are a major component in disaster risk reduction. Despite forecasting system advances, hydro-meteorological and geo-hazards continue to claim thousands of lives, while wreaking irreparable damage upon homes, businesses and critical infrastructure. Research
Start Fund COVID-19 enables Start Network members to anticipate and respond to critical virus-related humanitarian needs in low-income countries. The new fund is part of the Start Network’s existing funding mechanism, the Start Fund, and
Financial products offered by the World Bank Treasury ranging from CAT Bonds, contingent financing to insurance packages. The World Bank helps clients increase their financial resilience to disasters by supporting disaster risk financing programs and offering
Our climate is changing. Our world is getting warmer and the impact on societies and sectors is growing. The need to adapt to these new climate extremes is driving actions: to connect challenges to solutions.
The Centre for Disaster Protection finds better ways to stop disasters devastating lives and economies, by supporting countries to better manage disaster risk. The Centre is founded on the principle that the relative likelihood of
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub provides technical advice and support to small and vulnerable member countries secure finance to tackle climate change. The Hub helps countries to translate their climate targets into action by
