News and updates

The Regional Platform 2024 Ignite Stage provides an opportunity to expose ideas and initiatives in disaster risk reduction to the regional DRR community.

The Europe and Central Asia Regional Platform for DRR invites stakeholders to submit applications for booth spaces at the Marketplace. Applications should be submitted by 31 July 2024.

European civil protection stakeholders meet in Finland over the next two days for an Action Oriented Dialogue on “Reducing Risk Together – Community Engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction”, hosted by the Ministry of Interior of Finland with UNDRR support.

The EFDRR Roadmap Action-Oriented Dialogue in Bucharest in February 2023 brought European civil protection leaders and stakeholders together to examine different approaches to building societal resilience through effective risk communication.

The EFDRR Roadmap Action-Oriented Dialogue on ‘Understanding and communicating existing and future risks: Ensuring evidence-based communication’ is taking place in Bucharest this week on 23-24 February.

The Government of Croatia and the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative for South-Eastern Europe, with UNDRR support, organised a 3-day workshop on the EFDRR Roadmap priority area on investing in disaster risk reduction (DRR)

Heads of National Disaster Management Authorities from Eastern Mediterranean met in Athens today to participate in the first EFDRR Roadmap 2020-2030 action-oriented dialogue on ‘Inclusive and Collaborative Systems for Heat and Wildfire Risks Governance’.

The 2022 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) will take place in Bali, Indonesia from 23-28 May 2022. Guide of the GP2022 includes the practical information as well as the highlights of the programme.