GFDRR

Who We Are

Established in 2006, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a global partnership that helps low- and middle-income countries better understand and reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change.

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Publication

GFDRR Annual Report 2023

A closer look at progress and results from fiscal year 2023.

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Publication

The Nature-Based Solutions Opportunity Scan

Leveraging Earth observation data to identify nature-based solutions investment opportunities.

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Publication

Building Code Checklist for Structural Resilience

A checklist on structural resilience, fire safety, green buildings, and universal accessibility.

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Climate and Disaster Risk Management for Health Systems

Healthcare systems are at the frontline of delivering critical care during emergencies. From flood-induced cholera outbreaks to earthquake casualties and zoonotic diseases, health care systems play a crucial role in mitigating the illnesses and deaths caused by emergencies.

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Building Regulation for Resilience

Building Regulation for Resilience promotes the enhancement of building regulatory frameworks, building control process, and implementation capacity to foster safer, greener, healthier, and more inclusive built environments at country, state or city scale.

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City Resilience Program

The City Resilience Program (CRP) helps cities become more resilient to the adverse impacts of disasters and climate change. The Program supports risk-informed urban planning, identifies investments that enhance city resilience, and facilitates access to financing to ensure that

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Digital Earth

The Digital Earth Partnership aims to enhance the resilience of vulnerable countries and communities to climate change and natural hazard disasters through greater access to and adoption of frontier earth observation tools & services.

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Disaster Risk Finance

We support countries in their efforts to design and implement financial protection strategies and instruments which can help them manage the costs of disaster and climate shocks.

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Disaster Risk Analytics

Accurate disaster risk analytics information is crucial to reducing the impacts of disasters and guiding climate adaptation investments.

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Disaster - Fragility, Conflict and Violence Nexus

In a world grappling with multiple crises, addressing the complex challenges at the intersection of disasters in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) settings is more crucial than ever.

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Emergency Preparedness and Response

Countries across the globe are confronting complex, multi-dimensional crises, climate impacts and other natural hazards.

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Hydromet Services and Early Warning Systems

GFDRR works with developing countries to improve their ability to understand, predict, and warn their citizens of hydrological and meteorological (hydromet) hazards. We support governments in strengthening their hydromet monitoring, forecasting and early warning systems.

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Inclusive Disaster Risk Management and Gender Equality

The impacts of disasters do not affect all people equally. Groups such as women, girls, persons with disabilities, ethnic and racial minorities, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and other marginalized communities are often disproportionately affected by shocks.

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Nature-Based Solutions

GFDRR is helping scale up the integration of nature-based solutions to climate challenges to help countries build resilience.

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Resilient Housing

GFDRR supports efforts to predict which houses are at the highest risk of getting damaged by natural hazards, to identify which can be made safe before it is too late, and to connect them with government subsidies and private capital.

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Resilient Infrastructure

GFDRR is mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) across multiple infrastructure sectors, promoting resilient infrastructure through targeted knowledge, tools and operational support.

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Safer Schools

GFDRR supports the design of intervention strategies and investment plans to make schools safer and resilient at scale.

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Understanding Risk

Understanding Risk is a global community of experts and practitioners with interest in the field of disaster risk identification, specifically risk assessment and risk communication.

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KNOWLEDGE HUB

Explore our repository of knowledge on resilience and disaster risk management.

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"Before the draining canals were rehabilitated, when it rained, the water would come inside the house. But after the basin was built, we started to get relief. We dont have any problems with water in the community anymore.
Isabel Matos, Resident of Beira, Mozambique "

Mozambique: Scaling up action on disaster risk reduction and resilience

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Japan

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