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Resilient Urban Futures: Understanding Risks and Diagnosing Resilience
(February 2025)
This learning session, part of UNDP’s Resilient Urban Futures Initiative, features Jeremy Wetterwald, Senior Advisor, Climate, Environment and Migration, IMPACT Initiatives, and Gareth Byatt, International Urban Resilience Expert.
Session highlights:
- Orientation on Resilience Diagnostics: Learn the 'how to' aspects, including data requirements and processes.
- Showcase of Tools and Methodologies: Discover the tools being deployed for resilience diagnostics.
- Examples from the Field: Hear about successful resilience diagnostics from comparable contexts.
Riding the Resilience Wave All-hands-on-deck for Urban Resilience in Small Island Developing States and Coastal Cities
(November 2024 - World Urban Forum)
Cities in SIDS and coastal areas face heightened yet shared risks, vulnerabilities and development challenges while being least equipped to address/mitigate them holistically. At the local level, the resilience of people, socio-economic assets, development sectors, social networks, local economic development and community livelihoods is under strain. In this sense, investments in urban and community resilience complemented by advancing local economic development has the potential to be an effective strategy for fostering the resilience of local economies. Supporting cities on the frontlines of climate challenge in SIDS and coastal areas, UNDP, UNDRR and UN-Habitat are collaborating to provide policy, programmatic, technical, knowledge and tools and methodologies to advance urban/local risk reduction and resilience action as part of the "Global Program on Integrated Urban Resilience".
Digital Solutions To Reduce Disaster Risk
(October 2024)
Disaster risk reduction is crucial to achieving sustainable development, but current approaches often fail to understand the complexities of emerging risks. Digital solutions can help us collect and analyse context-driven data from multiple sources, enable a better understanding of the interlinkages and underlying drivers of risk and help identify and implement context-relevant solutions to improve risk reduction and resilience.
To help governments better understand and address the complexity of risks and promote risk-informed development, UNDP is embedding digital transformation as a critical enabler of disaster risk reduction and recovery. Get inspired by programming examples from Colombia, and learn about the work of the SDG AI Lab and technologies tracked in the Frontier Technology Radar for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Check out the UNDP Digital Guides - Disaster Risk Reduction
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Disaster Risk Reduction
(October 2024)
Learn how UNDP is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enhance disaster risk reduction efforts through real-world examples, including UNDP Kyrgyzstan's programme on monitoring glacial lake outbursts and landslides, and the UNDP SDG AI Lab's Digital Social Vulnerability Index.
Gain further insights from Google's approach to fostering inclusion through AI and Premise's AI-powered survey tool for data-driven decision-making.
Empowering resilience: gender-transformative success stories
(September 2024)
Hear first-hand success stories and lessons learnt from UNDP's work on strengthening grassroots resilience to disaster and conflict risk in Armenia; supporting civil society advocacy and leadership of women-led organizations for gender justice in climate action in Bosnia and Herzegovina; how women’s leadership and networks in Syria have played a transformative role in disaster response and social cohesion efforts; and about gender-responsive recovery from last year's devastating earthquakes in Türkiye.
Advancing Disability Inclusion in Post-Crisis Recovery
(May 2024)
Addressing disability inclusion in post-crisis recovery processes and outcomes remains a critical concern for humanitarian, development and peace actors. Throughout the recovery and reconstruction process, persons with disabilities and their representative organizations play crucial roles as allies in advancing disability inclusion. This session showcases practical examples of successful post-crisis recovery processes and outcomes that have embraced disability inclusion principles. Furthermore, it discusses the challenges and opportunities for enhancing meaningful participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations more effectively in the future.
Building Resilience Together: Uniting Efforts for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation with the CADRI Partnership
(May 2024)
The CADRI Partnership is a UN-led global initiative providing countries with a unique mechanism to pool and mobilize expertise within and outside the UN system in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). In April 2024, the Partnership embarked on the one-year transition phase of its 2024-2030 Joint Programme – shaping new ways for having lasting impacts at country level. In this event, CADRI partners highlighted key achievements in 2023 but more importantly, presented and discussed the new phase and approach for the Partnership.
Finance to advance urban resilience and sustainability action
(April 2024)
The webinar, led by UNDP in partnership with UNDRR, focused on how local governments can augment financing options to strengthen urban resilience and better protect their citizens and cities’ basic services and critical infrastructure. Cities consistently identify challenges related to accessing disaster/climate financing as a major impediment to scaled up risk-informed urban development. This resource crunch assumes critical dimensions in cities where budgetary allocations are barely sufficient to maintain ongoing administrative functions and day-to-day services. The webinar focused on how cities can tap into more diverse sources of risk reduction funding and how municipalities can more effectively finance and implement resilience initiatives.
Application of digital technologies for heatwave resilience
(December 2023)
The webinar, led by UNDP, in partnership with UNDRR, focused on how local governments can apply digital technology to better protect their citizens and cities. The webinar highlighted existing and potential digital-technology-based initiatives that inform decision makers, communities, and other stakeholders of appropriate actions and measures to reduce heatwave risk.
Shaping a Resilient Future for All: Advancing Disability Inclusion for Building Resilience
(December 2023)
To commemorate the 2023 International Day of Persons with Disabilities the Permanent Mission of Australia, the Permanent Mission of Finland, UN Women, UNICEF, and UNDP organized the global advocacy event “Shaping a Resilient Future for All: Advancing Disability Inclusion for Building Resilience”. The event celebrated resilient, disability-inclusive communities and showcased the role of persons with disabilities as agents of change. The event featured an award ceremony of the finalists of the Photo Competition “Change makers in action: Building disability inclusive, resilient communities” sponsored by UNDP and OCHA.
"Quantifying Infrastructure Risks - A Pathway to Sustainable Infrastructure of the Future" - A Spotlight on the Global Infrastructure Resilience Report
(October 2023)
The report "Global Infrastructure Resilience: Capturing the Resilience Dividend" is a pioneering report developed by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Report presents a compelling economic, financial, and political imperative for investing in resilience, based on a new cutting-edge Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI).
GIRI is the first publicly available and fully probabilistic risk model to estimate risk for infrastructure assets with respect to most major geological and climate-related hazards. It can enable governments to understand the contingent liabilities they face and can then inform the development of national infrastructure strategies and plans to reduce risk and strengthen resilience.
Can disasters be avoided?
(July 2023)
The webinar, led by UNDP in partnership with UNDRR, deliberated upon the challenging notion: ‘Can disasters be avoided?’ It analyzed approaches being advanced to prevent hazards from turning into disasters, look at promising examples from a range of countries and discuss how ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking is helping countries and communities prevent adverse fallouts from hazard events.
Design Workshop: UNDP Policy Brief on Disability-Inclusive DRR, Recovery and Resilience
(May 2023)
This workshop invited UNDP Country Offices and partners - persons with disabilities and/or Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) - to inform and co-design a UNDP Policy Brief on Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction, Recovery and Resilience.
The purpose of the Policy Brief is to guide UNDP staff on the principles and good practices of disability inclusion in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and recovery for building resilience and promoting more inclusive approaches that recognize and address the rights of persons with disabilities in their full diversity.
Building Resilient Urban Systems Risk-Informing Urban Development: An Imperative for Resilience
(April 2023)
The webinar, led by UNDP in partnership with UNDRR, focused on risk-informed urban development and planning processes in cities/municipalities. Almost two-thirds of the urban infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has yet to be built. Reducing existing and emerging multi-dimensional urban risks and investing in resilience building through a systems-approach (i.e., looking at urban services, capacities, resources, institutions, sectors and stakeholders as a whole) presents a huge development opportunity.
The Future We Create: How Innovation Can Advance Disability-inclusive Development
(December 2022)
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2022, UNDP organized a webinar on “The Future We Create: How Innovation Can Advance Disability-inclusive Development”. The webinar provided a platform to exchange good practices, discuss challenges and identify solutions in innovation that supports disability-inclusive development. The session raised awareness, promoted successful co-created initiatives with and for persons with disabilities, and ultimately advocated for disability-inclusion as a key principle of sustainable development practices.
Mainstreaming LNOB, Gender & Diversity Inclusion in DRR and CCA
(July 2022)
The CADRI Partnership organized a training on How to Integrate LNOB, Gender & Diversity in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. The training was developed as part of rolling out the CADRI Tool for DRR/CCA capacity diagnosis and planning, which mainstreams Leaving No One Behind (LNOB), gender and diversity key principles. The training objective was to introduce participants to the CADRI methodology and Tool, and how it can support the integration of LNOB, gender and diversity inclusive perspectives in DRR/CCA programming and planning, also on the sectoral level.
The Value of Partnerships to Reduce Disaster and Climate Risk
(July 2022)
The side event focuses on SDG 17 “Partnerships for the Goals” and how Partnerships are a more effective and efficient way to scale up action to strengthen DRR and CCA across sectors as to individual and siloed approaches. Partnerships contribute to developing common, coordinated and coherent approaches amongst stakeholders and promote multi-sectoral interventions. In the session the panelists elaborate on the value of Partnerships to reduce disaster and climate risk across socio-economic sectors in order to achieve the Agenda 2030. They talk from different perspectives: global, national and local level, from UN, government and civil society perspective. The guiding question for all panelists will be:
- How are Partnerships contributing to achieve the Agenda 2030, particularly in the area of DRR/CCA (incl. good practices, lessons learnt, recommendations)?
- How can Partnerships in DRR/CCA contribute to the achievement of the Agenda 2030 in the COVID-19 recovery process?
Launch of the CADRI Digital Tool for Capacity Diagnosis and Planning
(May 2022)
The official launch of the CADRI Partnership’s Digital Tool for capacity diagnosis and planning has the main objective to socialize the digital tool and the revised CADRI partners’ methodology in humanitarian networks. During the event CADRI partners explain the CADRI partners’ tool revision rationale, discuss the added value of mainstreaming key principles such as gender equity, LNOB, conflict sensitivity, explore how the digital tool can be used to facilitate a diagnosis of preparedness systems, and analyze the opportunities of the digital tool to strengthen the link between preparedness system strengthening and anticipatory action.
Launch of Consultation for Developing a Comprehensive Offer on Risk-Informed Development
(January 2021)
The webinar aims to launch an e-discussion to gather inputs from the network of UNDP practitioners and beyond to shape and inform UNDP’s Comprehensive Offer on Risk-Informed Development (RID). The webinar will provide details on the concept and definition of risk-informed development; and concrete examples of what UNDP is already doing in this space. It will also introduce details on the consultation process and the e-discussion, and how the process informs the UNDP strategic planning process. The webinar is an opportunity take stock of who is interested in this topic, both internally and externally, which will be useful for preparing follow-up discussions and engagements.
Consultation on New UNDP Strategy Tool for Climate and Disaster Risk-Informed Development
(December 2020)
The webinar aims to consult with two of UNDP’s Communities of Practice (CoPs), i.e. CoPs on Crisis Prevention and Resilience and Nature-Based Solutions and Climate Action, on a new UNDP Strategy Tool in support of programme countries’ efforts to mainstream disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in an integrated approach into development planning and budgeting. The webinar will also help promote the tool and discuss next steps in socializing it with UNDP Regional Hubs and Country Offices.
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