UNDRR News

To strengthen local preparedness and support cities in reducing risk and building resilience, UNDRR ROECA expanded its cooperation in 2024 with four Moldovan cities: Anenii-Noi, Căușeni, Leova, and Sîngera.

From May 22nd to 24th, the 10th Meeting of the Network of Portuguese Resilient Cities and Towns, integrated into the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), took place in Évora, Alentejo region of Portugal.

Tajikistan takes significant strides towards bolstering its resilience against natural hazards and climate change impacts through a series of local level workshops under the Early Warnings for All (EW4ALL) initiative.

With collective efforts from various stakeholder groups, including the European Science & Technology Advisory Group (E-STAG) and local and national authorities, UNDRR published two reports containing 9 case studies from the Europe and Central Asia region.

Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) is a cross-stakeholder initiative aimed at enhancing local resilience

Four cities and one region in Ukraine have taken initial steps to scale up ambitions and actions to reduce disaster risk and strengthen their urban resilience.

As recovery and reconstruction efforts continue, the emphasis on building back better and leaving no one behind is imperative to enhance the disaster resilience of infrastructure, individuals, and communities in the affected region.

The Government of Tajikistan and UNDRR collaborated on an event on “Investing in Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Transport Infrastructure in Tajikistan” at the Investors Forum for EU-Central Asia Transport Connectivity on 29 January.

European civil protection stakeholders meet in Finland over the next two days for an Action Oriented Dialogue on “Reducing Risk Together – Community Engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction”, hosted by the Ministry of Interior of Finland with UNDRR support.

On the occasion of the European Urban Resilience Forum 2023, held in Cascais, Portugal, on 18-20 October 2023, UNDRR and the Portuguese National Platform for DRR organized an informal peer learning exchange of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative.