Works at the intersection between understanding risk and risk impact to reduce disaster loss and prevent the emergence of new risk. It focuses on exposure to hazards, vulnerability and capacity, and hazard’s characteristics of various localities.
Publications:
- UNDRR publications
- UN resolutions & reports
- Terminology
- Media Centre
- HIGHLIGHTS:
- Monitoring the Implementation of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030:A Snapshot of Reporting for 2018 (March 2018, 33p) – Marks a milestone as “the first public reporting of data collected by the Sendai Framework Monitoring System (SFM).”
- Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (2019) (2019, 425p) – It is “the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk.”
Events:
- An online calendar of past and upcoming events