UNDRR Publications

This contribution to the GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 is a case study on the 2017 drought in the Canadian Prairies, which was notable because of its rapid onset and severe intensification. Conditions quickly deteriorated due to an early snow melt.

This contribution to the GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 is a case study on the Northeast of Brazil. It focusses on drought impacts and policy responses. Drought has major socio-economic and environmental impacts, especially in the semiarid lands.

This contribution to the GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 focusses on Australia's progression in drought risk management. Drought has long been regarded as a recurring feature of the Australian landscape with impacts on agriculture and food systems.

This special edition of the Global Assessment Report on DRR focuses on explores the systemic nature of drought and its impacts on achievement of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the SDGs and human and ecosystems health and wellbeing.

Chisinau municipality is the first city in the Republic of Moldova to join the UNDRR flagship initiative – Making Cities Resilient 2030 and the first city to use the Preliminary Disaster  Resilience Scorecard for Cities and the Public Health Addendum.

UNDRR INFO, is the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia's monthly newsletter covering activities in the field of DRR. This month's edition includes updates on the Central Asia Initiative, the opening of registration for EFDRR, a blog post on urban

As an emerging systemic risk and “a crisis like no other”, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the countries and territories around the globe in an unprecedented way. The “pandemic crisis of our lifetime” is causing record loss of lives and severe human

This Strategic Framework sets out UNDRR's goals and activity focus for the period 2022-2025.

UNDRR INFO, is the regional office for Europe's monthly newsletter covering activities in the field of DRR. This month's edition includes updates on: the launch of the Making Cities Resilient initiative in Europe and Central Asia, Members of the European

The third virtual meeting of the Africa Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction (AWGDRR), organized jointly by the African Union Commission (AUC) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), was held from 25-26 March 2021, under the