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UNDRR
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UNDRR is the United Nation’s office for disaster risk reduction. It was created in December 1999 as part of the UN Secretariat with the purpose of ensuring the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
Our mandate is to serve as the focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster risk reduction and to ensure synergies among disaster risk reduction activities.
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Leave No Mountain Behind: Disaster Risk Reduction for All
Why, despite the essential role mountains play in enabling countries and regions adapt to climate change, reduce disaster risks and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, are mountain communities often left behind economically and politically? Learn more in this issue brief.
- 13th Jul 2022
- 4 min read
Christine Messervy
Published an Article
COPE Books for Children: Tsunamis
Learn about how to be prepared for a tsunami in this illustrated book for children from COPE and United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction.
- 28th Apr 2022
- 2 min read
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Addressing Disaster Displacement in Disaster Risk Reduction Policy and Practice: A Checklist
Explore a checklist of elements that DRR policy makers and practitioners can consider in assessing whether their policies, strategies and practices align with the Sendai Framework.
- 1st Jul 2021
- 4 min read
Silvi Llosa
Published an Article
e-Learning course: Disaster Displacement
This interactive and dynamic eLearning course distils the guidance of the Words into Action Guideline - Disaster Displacement: How to Reduce Risk, Address Impacts and Strengthen Resilience.
- 16th Apr 2021
- 3 min read
Christabel Chan
Published an Article
Guardians of the Planet: Asia Pacific Children and Youth Voices on Climate Crisis and Disaster Risk Reduction
The article presents findings from consultations with children and youth in 13 countries in Asia and the Pacific. It highlights their knowledge, experience and contribution to disaster resilience and climate action.
- 8th Oct 2020
- 3 min read
Melanie Gall
Published an Article
Transformative Development and Disaster Risk Management
This overview builds on previous work in Integrated Research on Disaster Risk to provide the science-based evidence for the development of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction
- 11th Apr 2016
- 5 min read
- 1 Comment
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Disasters, climate change and development: Reducing risk by tackling the drivers of vulnerability
This discussion brief examines the relationship between climate and disaster risk reduction, aiming to identify ways for them to work better together.
- 6th Nov 2015
- 6 min read
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I am a Risk knowledge and analysis officer at UN office for Disaster Risk Red...
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