Policy briefs

Summary and recommendations on key themes in disaster risk reduction.

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This policy brief explores challenges faced in urban disaster resilience. The world’s population passed eight billion in late 2022, with much of the increase concentrated in ever-expanding urban areas.
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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.
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This policy brief explores challenges faced in gender-responsive disaster risk reduction. Gender inequality, coupled with climate and environment crises, is the greatest sustainable development challenge of the present time.
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This policy brief explores the challenges faced in financing disaster prevention and de-risking investment.
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This policy brief explores the challenges faced in disaster risk governance in relation to the climate emergency.

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