UNDRR News

The UNDRR Annual Report 2022 presents several important achievements that UNDRR marked in the year 2022.

The UNDRR ROAS participated in the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, which is the market-leading, international travel and tourism event unlocking business potential within the Middle East for inbound and outbound tourism professionals.

The application of the tool was conducted through a workshop facilitated by UNDRR under the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative.

The objective of the Programme is to build capacity in both local governments for integrated risk management and disaster resilience action planning.

Within a week of the release of the synthesis of the 6th Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the 8th staging of the NAP Expo was held in Santiago, Chile, under the theme “Scaling up Adaptation”.

UNDRR and UNSSC are collaborating to develop a Thought Leadership course promoting synergies between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation for risk-informed sustainable development.

The theatre of action and opportunity for solutions in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals has ‘gravitated towards urban centres’. Many of these solutions will be through policymakers and their partners adopting more ‘systems-based’ approaches

Rwanda’s held its first national conference on disaster risk reduction and management on 27 and 28 March 2023 in Kigali.

UCLG-MEWA organized a webinar on the critical role of local governments in disaster management. The webinar featured prominent speakers, who shared their valuable insights and experiences on disaster management, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Increasing numbers of people are being affected by larger, ever more complex and more expensive disasters because decision makers are failing to put people first and prevent risks from becoming disasters.