United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

🌐PreventionWeb is UNDRR's global knowledge-sharing platform for disaster risk reduction and resilience, connecting professionals with vital resources, expert insights, and the latest research. But don't take our word for it! 💬 📹 In this video, DRR professionals from around the world explain how they use #PreventionWeb as part of their daily disaster risk reduction and resilience building activities.

🌧️☀️ Did you know.... flood risk can actually increase after droughts? Why? Dry, scorched soil becomes solid, unable to absorb heavy rain—leading to surface runoff and flash floods. 🌊 Healthy soil = flood prevention. 🌱 ✅ Avoid overgrazing ✅ Maintain healthy tillage ✅ Use crop cover #SoilHealth #COP16Riyadh

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🌍 Real progress, real risks. In 2024, we advanced disaster risk reduction globally in numerous ways. For example: 65 countries—70% of them LDCs or SIDS—strengthened early warning systems with our support. 30 more improved their national #DRR strategies. 163 Member States are now contributing to the Sendai Framework Monitor. But the clock is ticking. With just 5 years of the Sendai Framework to go, we still have a lot to achieve. ⏳Disasters continue to steal development gains 📉 Funding gaps remain 📢But DRR is an investment in a resilient future. Thank you to every partner helping drive change on the ground. With your support our work continues in 2025. 👉 https://ow.ly/7kqI50VyLP3

👉 Only 12% of disaster-related aid funding in 2021 was spent on disaster risk reduction, prevention, and preparedness. Operationalising DRR in humanitarian and crisis settings is particularly challenging given each settings complex context. This UNDRR study explores financing of disaster risk reduction in humanitarian and crisis settings ➡️ https://ow.ly/1ah850VyM4S

Extreme weather is changing how we produce food. To adapt to a changing climate change, farmers in India are rediscovering mighty millet as a drought-resistant crop ➡️ https://ow.ly/ymSV50Tj7Ve #FoodSecurity

🌪️ Disasters can steal development gains and set back progress against the SDGs.📉 💡Discover how disaster risk reduction can be integrated into each of the 17 sustainable development goals – for truly resilient #SDG progress. ➡️ https://ow.ly/1bmh50UtAll

Meet Bienvenue Taonsa 🎙️– a journalist from RTB Burkina Faso, trained through UNDRR’s #MediaSavingLives initiative. His story on Yacouba Sawadogo – once mocked for planting trees on dry land – became a symbol of resilience 🌱 When the media digs deeper, change takes root.

📢The Early Warnings for All Initiative dashboard tracks progress, informs decision-making and measures success of the Early Warnings for All Initiative, which aims for all people on Earth to be covered by early warning systems by 2027. The dashboard is the fruit of global cooperation, with multiples partners bringing data, sources and methodologies to create an online monitoring tool. It facilitates information sharing, enhancing coordination and strengthening accountability. It allows data for the four Early Warnings for All Key Pillars, as well as those for disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and cross-cutting enablers to be monitored and visualized. Explore the progress in achieving #EarlyWarningsForAll ➡️ https://ow.ly/jFfx50Uk9PW Follow recent updates ➡️ https://ow.ly/viai50Uk9PV

What if the next big flood, wildfire, or heatwave didn't make headlines? 📰 Not because it didn't happen, but because communities, governments and local authorities were so well-prepared that a disaster was avoided? 📢Our latest #DRRvoices blog post, from Ilan Kelman , Ana Prados, PhD & Gareth Byatt, explains how this is not just possible – it is already happening around the world. 💡Learn about the six-point model for avoiding disasters, and explore some examples of real-world disasters that never happened. 👉 https://ow.ly/AKCX50Vz6zw on #PreventionWeb UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR)