The official launch of the National EW4ALL Roadmap took place in Niamey on 13 October, during the commemoration of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025 under the theme Fund Resilience, Not Disasters.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
The UNDRR ROAS, in partnership with the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the League of Arab States (LAS), convened the Arab Regional Commemoration of the IDDRR under the global theme “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters.”
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
The past months have unfurled a tapestry of tribulation across our archipelago: tectonic convulsions that fractured the earth beneath our feet, tempests that lashed our shores with unrelenting fury, and deluges that submerged entire communities in sorrow.
The All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), a member of the Avoidable Death Network (AND), proudly celebrates this year's IDDRR along with 200 small urban businesses across six Indian cities.
Building on advances in big Earth data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, a new tool - SatGPT - offers an innovative solution that supports flood risk mapping.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
As the world confronts accelerating climate volatility, India's example demonstrates that resilience is no longer the domain of emergency managers alone - it is a collective technological enterprise.
Barbadian youth took the lead on resilience financing during the 2025 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, calling for greater investment in prevention and innovation to build a safer, more sustainable Caribbean.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
The theme for the 2025 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is "Fund Resilience, Not Disasters". This theme highlights the need to address the escalating costs of disasters by shifting focus from reactive response to proactive investments in DRR.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
This is a conference report of the Fifth World Tsunami Museum Conference (WTMC5) which was held on 14 October 2024 during the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR 2024) in the Philippines.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Kobe Office
The Global Assessment Report 2025: Resilience Pays: Financing and Investing for our Future highlights how smarter investment can reset the destructive cycle of disasters, debt, uninsurability and humanitarian need that threatens a climate-changed world.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
This policy brief highlights priority areas for actionable advances in improving food security, nutrition and child health in Burkina Faso in the context of a changing climate.
London School of Economics and Political Science, the
This briefing note highlights the need to ensure that disaster risk reduction policies are inclusive of hyper-marginalised children and youth, not just a moral imperative but a strategic necessity for building truly resilient societies.
Education is a key asset for climate action. Education reshapes behaviors, develops skills, and spurs innovation. This report outlines data, evidence, examples, and a policy agenda on how to harness education and learning to propel climate action.
This case study shows how UNICEF, the Government of Madagascar and civil society are working together to pilot a ground-breaking, innovative finance solution that includes a child-responsive, parametric risk transfer product for tropical cyclones.
This report aims to provide a comprehensive stocktake of the impacts of climate change on children across six major hazards that impact their health and well-being: extreme heat, droughts, wildfires, floods and storms, air pollution and ecosystem changes.
