GFDRR track I: Strengthening regional and global partnerships for disaster risk reduction - A five year retrospective, 2007-2011

This report provides a five year retrospective on the experiences and successes of the Track I of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), which 'provides the financial and technical support to the ISDR system through the ISDR secretariat,' and identifies some pointers for 2013 and beyond. This report focuses only on the period 2007-2011 and reviews in detail the programmatic activities of Track I, including: (i) strengthening the regional architecture for implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 through regional platforms, ministerial meetings, regional strategies and action plans; (ii) building a credible evidence base for planning, budgeting and action including addressing trans-boundary risks; and (iii) providing seed funding for large global knowledge-generation and advocacy activities such as the Global Assessment Report, the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Campaign and PreventionWeb.