UNDRR News

UNDRR with the financial support from the European Union, announces the “Sing for Resilience” musical contest for countries based in Central Asia to mark this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction.

At an Africa Climate Week event, UNDRR heard from three African countries on their work to blend climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction to best help vulnerable communities.

Experts from the National Platform for DRR of Tajikistan and related national agencies, international and local organizations, and representatives of academia participated in a workshop to validate the results of a stress test of the country’s DRM system

The Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative launched the "Greater Horn of Africa: Strengthening early warning and early action systems for meteorological, hydrological, and climate extremes" project.

The UNDRR ROAS, in collaboration with the National Center for Disaster Risk Management, organized a National Consultation Workshop on the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework 2015-2030 for the Arab Region in Ramallah, Palestine.

COP27 host Sharm El-Sheikh has set its sights on being recognized as a global leader in urban disaster resilience.

The UNDRR participated in the eighth policy roundtable discussion organized by the League of Arab States and the Government of Japan, in partnership with the UNDP, under the title “Building Resilience to Climate Disasters and the Road to COP27.”

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk reductions invites members of the DRR community to comment on the new Words into Action guide on using traditional knowledges for disaster risk reduction.

UNDRR and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) organized a workshop to enhance coordination mechanism at the regional, sub-regional and national level for early warning systems and transboundary risk management (TRM).

More than 20 experts from regional offices of the CoES of Tajikistan participated in a training workshop on using the DesInventar-Sendai disaster information management software to record damage and losses due to disasters.