Newsletter (December 2024)

Building the Coalition

In August 2024, Vietnam became the 40th country and 47th member to join CDRI. A CDRI Secretariat mission is planning to visit Vietnam in January 2025.

Championing disaster resilience at COP 29

At COP 29, CDRI hosted a DRI pavilion that provided space for conversations with ministers, senior officials, and over 130 global experts across 32 sessions. We also announced a new Mountain Resilience Programme and launched a Physical Climate Risk Assessment Playbook for Financial Institutions as well as engaging 30 countries, 87 organizations, and speaking at nine side events.

Promoting DRI at G20

CDRI launched a ‘Compendium of good practices on DRI’ at the G20 DRR Ministerial Meeting in Brazil. The compendium supports CDRI’s commitment to support knowledge sharing for achieving DRI within the G20 in line with the DRR Working Group Workplan agreed under the India Presidency in 2023.

H.E. David Puig, Ambassador of Dominican Republic to India

H.E. David Puig speaks about the importance of DRI, CDRI’s exciting growth over the past three years, and the IRIS funded projects underway in the Dominican Republic.

Building a global network of future-ready infrastructure professionals

The fifth edition of the CDRI Fellowship Programme received a record 174 applications from 20 member countries. This cohort will develop innovative research and solutions with a special attention to wildfires, extreme heat, and coastal geographies.

Enhancing infrastructure resilience in Mauritius

A workshop on infrastructure resilience, organized with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Centre, Mauritius, engaged 56 participants from 48 ministries and departments. Discussions focused on recommendations to limit the impact of disasters on infrastructure through enhanced resilience.

CDRI's Second Biennial Report: Unlocking the Resilience Dividend

The second edition of our Flagship report will be released in Autumn 2025.  It focus on how to capture the 'resilience dividend,' measure the indirect costs of disasters, and showcase financial tools, institutional frameworks, new technologies, and Nature-based solutions to enhance DRI.

Reinforcing the resilience of telecommunications

At the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly in New Delhi, DG Amit Prothi shared insights on using ‘AI for disaster risk assessment’ during the session focusing on the Role of Standardization and Innovative Technologies.

Supporting a resilient future for SIDS

CDRI announced the award of $8 million in new funding to 12 projects from 18 Small Island Developing States under its IRIS programme at COP 29. This brings the total number of projects supported by CDRI under IRIS to 23.

Improving the Resilience of Urban Infrastructure

A funding call of $2.5 million was launched by CDRI under its Urban Infrastructure Resilience Programme. Five cities will be selected from the 30 eligible CDRI LMIC and SIDS members to enhance their resilience to extreme heat, flooding, and water scarcity. The call will close in January 2025.

Data strategies for strengthening infrastructure resilience

CDRI is developing a Data and Technology Program to strengthen its member countries’ ability and capacity to procure, access, manage, and use risk data and technologies to improve disaster resilience of infrastructure. The program will focus on LMIC and SIDS members.

Staff Testimonial

Nony Gupta explains her role at the Secretariat and her experiences of working with CDRI.

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