GFDRR Partnership Days 2024

The GFDRR 2024 Partnership Days event, held at the UR2024 in Himeji, Japan, brought together GFDRR members, observers, partners, and World Bank staff from all over the world. The event, through a dynamic exchange of ideas via presentations and discussions, was an opportunity to demonstrate GFDRR’s commitment to navigate a world marked by challenges that make the already complex task of disaster and climate risk reduction even more difficult.  

With our extensive experience, technical knowledge, and collaboration with the finest development professionals on the ground every day across 160 countries, GFDRR can drive large-scale change and make a significant impact. Our deep real-time understanding of disaster risk management priorities enables us to match innovative solutions with disaster risk challenges, making us a unique partner to help drive impact at scale.

Amid the new normal of overlapping global challenges, the urgency of addressing the climate crisis, which makes the lives and livelihoods of the poorest and the most vulnerable even more precarious, has intensified. GFDRR’s commitment to a proactive approach to disaster risk management underscores the necessity of its multi-faceted work across several thematic areas — such as disaster risk financing and nature-based solutions — with an emphasis on impact and inclusion.  

Over the past 18 years, we’ve built transformative collaborations with governments, communities and private sectors, to tackle complex global challenges. This annual event showed how sharing knowledge and forming alliances are crucial in enhancing global and local resilience strategies.