IDDRR News and publications

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A poor boy collecting garbage waste from a landfill site in the outskirts of Delhi. Hundreds of children work at these sites to earn their livelihood.
A closer look at the link between inequality, disaster resilience, and the urgent need for equitable solutions, unpacking the complex dynamics at play between inequality and disasters.
International Science Council (ISC)
View of the Bangaldesh coast
Bangladesh's coastal cities and towns are not just grappling with the direct impacts of climate change but are also contending with socio-economic challenges that are exacerbating their vulnerability.
Global Center on Adaptation
The report of the event focuses on the pressing need to upscale wetland solutions for disaster risk reduction. The session featured prominent speakers who offered valuable insights into the potential of wetlands as nature-based solutions (NbS).
Wetlands International
This picture shows a boy with crutches in the Dadaab refugee camp in Somalia.
Fighting inequality for a resilient future is the theme of this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. It highlights the vicious cycle between disasters and inequality
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Scene of destruction after the second passage of Cyclone Freddy in Zambézia province, Mozambique
The AfDB teamed up with the ARC Group to establish the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme in 2018. This program enhances African countries’ resilience and response to climate shocks by improving their management of climate disaster risks.
African Development Bank
Colorful houses in the favela of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
PLOS highlights recent studies published in PLOS ONE including one on an informal settlement in northwestern Colombia and a paper looking at how heat waves affect visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park. The authors give PLOS insights on their work.
Public Library of Science
connecting technology
Representatives from high-tech companies such as Oracle, Amazon, and Esri joined community humanitarian organizers and academic researchers in energetic and open dialog on topics such as "Unleashing Innovation for Disaster Resilience".
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A student rides a bike through the floods in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Marking the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on Friday, UN chief António Guterres called on countries everywhere to boost resilience and adaptation, to build a safer and more just future for all.
United Nations News Centre
Nepal - Badil Lama is an engineer trained in landslide mitigation by building safer roads
To prepare the local government and community to respond before, during, and after shocks, Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality organised a functional level forecast-based action-shock responsive social protection (FbA-SRSP) simulation in September 2023.
People in Need
Young men in a downpour in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Drought struck the North, North Central and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka this August and September generating cascading consequences for the entire island.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Publications

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The study provides an account of progress, gaps and promising practices in including persons with disabilities in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the region.
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In 2023, the International Day will look at the reciprocal relationship between disasters and inequality. Inequality and disaster vulnerability are two sides of the same coin.
Glossary of early action terms: 2022 edition
In an attempt to clarify key terms, and in keeping with its aim to bring coherence, alignment, and complementarity to the field of risk-informed early action, REAP has developed this glossary as a tool to support productive conversations around the topic.
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This UNDRR-WMO joint report assesses the current global status of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) against Target G of the Sendai Framework, collating data officially reported by the Member States with data collected through a WMO survey.
IDDRR 2022
In 2022, the International Day will focus on Target G of the Sendai Framework: “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030.”
The Sendai Seven Campaign in 2021 - Concept Note
In 2021, the IDDRR focus is on Target f: “Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030.
International cooperation for developing countries to reduce their disaster risk and disaster losses - Key Messages
The focus of this year’s IDDRR is “Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030.”
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A brief report of the impact of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas & the Caribbean. 

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