Demolition of silos.
Disasters unfold across national boundaries, involving a range of interrelated hazards and complex dynamics. To tackle disaster risks and build resilience, it will require a united effort to move beyond working in silos.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework, 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 26 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was a ‘wake-up call’ to improve preventative measures and ‘stop the spiral of increasing disaster impact and risk’. More countries must “Think Resilience”, and urgently adopt and improve early warning systems.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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The seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction took place from 25 to 27 May 2022 in Bali, Indonesia. This is the Co-Chairs' Summary of the Bali Agenda for Resilience.
Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly
The seventh Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GP2022) continued its work with another dense day, which included two plenary sessions on the Mid-term Review, a high-level dialogue, a ministerial roundtable, and other thematic sessions.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Highway with cars rushing over it at night.
Day-to-day life depends on infrastructure and its services, this includes supply-chains, electricity, water and sanitation, and information networks. In the face of COVID-19 and increasing extreme weather events, these systems are under increasing threat.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Bishkek meeting
With financial support from the EU, and the facilitation of UNDRR, the city of Bishkek launched its Detailed Disaster Resilience Scorecard Assessment process, which forms a part of the city’s wider Local Disaster Resilience Strategy development process.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
Rajib Shaw - Professor at Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan - has championed multi-hazard community-based disaster risk reduction in six Asian countries, and his work has led to the establishment of village level community-based working groups.
Three individuals – Myriam Urzúa Venegas, Rajib Shaw and Glenn Suerte Felipe Banaguas – and three organizations – the Pacific Disaster Center, Save the Children Philippines, and SEEDS – are the six laureates of the 2022 United Nations Sasakawa Award.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Ministerial Roundtable: Scaling up Disaster Risk Reduction to Tackle the Climate Emergency, Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 25 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
The 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) is taking place at a critical juncture in our planet’s history.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Dushanbe joins MCR2030
Through financial support from the European Union, the city of Dushanbe and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) conducted two self-assessment workshops focused on disaster resilience.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
UN High-Level Delegation at 7th Global Plaform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali
Countries gathered in Indonesia to review global progress to reduce the threat of climate hazards and other disasters amid the rising toll of extreme events.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

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