Many of the world’s disasters are foreseeable, and the science used to forecast them is increasingly reliable, enabling actors to put in place the actions and financing required to act before a disaster hits.

The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is an open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations.

This Ignite Stage session presents a new online resource called Earth Observations (EO) Risk Toolkit, as an integral part of the National Risk Information Portal (NRIP) under the UNDRR’s flagship initiative called the Global Risk Assessment Framework.

Not everyone faces the same risk from disasters. People with disabilities and other at-risk groups are often forgotten in disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs and left behind when disaster happens.

This presentation details the UNDRR's initiative to document and more widely make available, in-depth information on early experiences and engagements with DRR.

During the second half of 2020, a moderate to strong La Niña phenomenon was registered with predictions it could cause extreme weather conditions in various parts of the world.

This session presents the latest technological approaches which allow countries and organisations to become Sendai-ready.

At the 7th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, Indonesia, a special session will be held ahead of launching a new communications campaign in 2022 in support of Indigenous Disaster Risk Reduction.

The objective of this session is to understand the perspectives of the communities most at risks.

The objective of this session is to create a space to hear about the perspectives of at-risk communities.