UNDRR News

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.

At the UN Water Conference, UNDRR calls for transformative water action to address water related risks.

Effective risk communication should consider the psychological, social, cultural and political forces influencing how people comprehend, perceive, and react to risk.

Indonesia's Cidanau Watershed is long-running example of a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) scheme, and shows how polycentric governance can work – with political will from all actors, a common legal framework and higher-level governance support.

A global initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected by early warnings by 2027 is being fast-tracked into action on the ground.

I welcome the Synthesis Report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who have been a leading voice on the danger posed by the runaway climate crisis.

UNDRR participated in the LDC5 conference, hosted by Qatar on 5-9 March 2023, to emphasize the centrality of disaster risk reduction to the resilience and development of LDCs.