Get involved IDDRR 2023

The below content is for the 2025 IDDRR. A 2026 update is forthcoming.

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Get involved with the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction

The theme for the 2025 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR), commemorated on 13 October, is “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters.” This theme highlights the urgent need to address the escalating costs of disasters by shifting focus from reactive response to proactive investments in disaster risk reduction. The 2025 campaign promotes two key calls to action: increase funding for disaster risk reduction, and ensure all public and private investments are risk-informed and resilient.

Responding to these calls can transform the disaster risk landscape, accelerate Sendai Framework implementation, and reduce the human and economic toll of disasters.

We invite you to share events and initiatives that demonstrate funding for resilience and risk-informed investment.

Participate in an event, promote one or join the conversation on "Fund resilience, not disasters"

Upcoming events

Meetings and conferences
Online
Release of the ADN Junior Champion Magazine, Volume 6: Children and Youths’ Experiences of Disasters in Vietnam
To commemorate the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2026, the Avoidable Deaths Network will launch the Junior Champion Magazine Volume 6 on October 13th at 1.00pm (UTC), featuring stories from Vietnamese youth on disasters.

Previous events

Meetings and conferences
Zeist
Online
1st Dutch-International Resilience Symposium - How to strengthen the resilience of essential services?
The 1st Dutch-International Resilience Symposium will bring together experts, practitioners and community leaders to tackle this challenge head-on.
Training event
Madrid
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In person
Challenges in geohydrological risk management: floods first response, modelling and resilience in action
This course presents a novel approach within the academic domain of geohydrological risk management by integrating challenge-based learning (CBL), serious gaming for disaster resilience, and collaborative GIS and hydrodynamical modelling tools.
Training event
Madrid
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Online
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) hackathon in the Alto Tajo
The EELISA Water in an Era of Change (EWEC) Community, is convening a three-day academic hackathon in Madrid, Spain, focused on prototyping Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for pollution and geohydrological hazards in the upper Tagus River.
Meetings and conferences
Athens
In person
Exercise HEPHAESTUS II, 2025: Evacuation of a building during an earthquake and fire scenario involving persons with disabilities
This exercise is a follow-up to the inclusive evacuation table-top exercise conducted in 2023 in Athens, which provided valuable lessons on multi-stakeholder coordination and the practical implementation of accessibility.
Training event
Online
Webinar on the Building Resilience Index: A risk mitigation tool in funding investments for resilient infrastructures
To advance the goal of IDDRR 2025, NEO, the lead partner for the Resilient Infrastructure priority area of ARISE Philippines, in partnership with International Finance Corporation and other key stakeholders, will be hosting an online webinar.
Meetings and conferences
Zurich
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In person
Resilient Week 20-26 October
Resilience Week combines theory and practice in a wide variety of formats. These are designed for all age groups and life situations.
Meetings and conferences
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Online
Words into Action: National Disaster Risk Assessment
These events will employ locally relevant case studies as a mechanism for exploring and applying the resources and material and to highlight the flexibility, utility and user-oriented design of the guide.

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UNDRR welcomes events from the community and partners.

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