This speech will look at some of the benefits of working in partnership across the Pacific to better deliver community-driven DRR and preparedness programming.

In this Ignite Stage presentation the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) will showcase Australia’s new Systemic Disaster Risk Handbook, that AIDR produced in the midst of COVID-19 last year.

Framed in the COVID-19 context, this presentation will provide information on how communities can plan for economic recovery after a disaster through increased focus on disaster financial literacy.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) works with local communities and disaster management agencies to map and understand risk by developing comprehensive data sets on buildings, roads, and key lifeline infrastructure data.

Banten and Central Sulawesi are two areas where earthquakes are often followed by tsunamis.

This Ignite Stage session will highlight the challenge of preparing people for unprecedented hazards, the frequency of which is increasing as the climate changes.

This side event follows the session on Nature-based Solutions on the 26th of May. It will look cross-thematically at the Global Platform’s themes and address how Nature-based solutions can contribute to the implementation of the Sendai Framework.

Afghanistan is one of worst natural disaster prone countries in the world.

Nepal is one of the 20 most disaster-prone countries in the world. Lightning was the second most frequent with 354 incidents during 2020 and 2021 according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) data.

By 2030, 40% of the world will be living in substandard housing, and an increasing number of the global population is at risk of one or more hazards.