UNU-CRIS Present at the UNDRR Conference, Geneva

The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is a three-day event, comprising an Official Programme as well as an Informal Programme. The two Preparatory Days before the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction provide a platform for partners and stakeholders to organize preparatory events in the lead up to the Official Programme.

The overall theme of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, ‘Every Day counts, Act for Resilience Today’ embodies an urgency to course correct the trajectory of progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework goals, as articulated in the midterm review. With two years elapsed since the midterm review of 2023 and five years remaining until 2030, there is a final window to accelerate action. Towards this end, the GP2025 aims to mobilize collective action towards building resilience through assessing progress on and giving practical guidance on accelerating the implementation of the Sendai Framework and of the calls made in the Political Declaration itself. 

TS3-4: Advancing DRR localization through South-South and triangular cooperation, peer-to-peer exchange, and international partnership

The session was attended by close to 200 experts from both Global North and Global South

The panellist includes

• The current Honorary President of the Swedish Red Cross
• Deputy Director, Climate Resilience Department, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom
• Distinguished Technical Advisor on Disaster Risk Reduction, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Project Coordinator, Association des Femmes pour la Promotion et le Développement, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Secretary of Disaster Risk Management, Cali City, Colombia
• Head of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Division, Makati City, the Philippines
• Expert from Civil Engineering Department, Mohammed V University in Rabat (UMS) & Mohamadia School of Engineers (EMS), Morocco

Recording is available here 

Nidhi Nagabhatla, UNU-CRIS Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Nature, Climate and Health Cluster as well as Sakhi Bayramli, UNU-CRIS intern, participated at this conference.