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The International Recovery Forum 2022, with the theme, “BRedesigning Systems for Resilience through Recovery: Assessing Progress and the Unfinished Agenda at the Midpoint of the Sendai Framework ,” was held online on 19 January 2022.

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is glad to announce that the registration for the seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) is now open.

In communities where social ties are strong and there is a sense of connectedness, residents are more readily able to rebound after a disruptive event.

Global Report on Food Crises confirms World Food Programme and humanitarian community's worst fears over critical nutrition At least 155 million people in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2020 — 20 million more than 2019, according to figures from the

Every 10 years, NOAA releases an analysis of U.S. weather of the past three decades that calculates average values for temperature, rainfall and other conditions. That time has come again. Known as the U.S. Climate Normals, these 30-year averages — now

Using Pakistan’s worst flooding in 2010 as a case study, researchers examined the disaster recovery activities after the flood.

This article commemorates the disaster by reflecting on what it has taught us over in regards to infrastructure resilience, risk identification and preparedness.

Since the year 2000, only one city located in an advanced market economy has been severely impacted by an earthquake.

The CES is the world’s second-costliest insured earthquake loss in history and supports the New Zealand regulator’s 1-in-1,000-year capital requirement.

New research supported by USAID is investigating whether investments in broadly based resilience help families to withstand the COVID-19 pandemic.