WEBINAR | Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management: Strategies for Building Resilience

Shocks and stressors, such as the impacts of climate change and Russia's unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine, require billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, erode development gains, increase the risk of political instability and diminish future economic growth. Disaster risk management (DRM) offers an approach for understanding risk probability and exposure by providing a set of tools for managing risks. Preplanning and prefinancing for known disasters significantly increases the timeliness and effectiveness of responses once a disaster strikes.

Early, predictable and well-coordinated responses to shocks and stressors through DRM can mitigate negative coping mechanisms, such as reduced food consumption, livestock death and distressed productive asset sales. DRM can also help individuals and communities build resilient capacities to manage future crises.

This webinar featured Lara Evans and Kathryn Stahlberg of USAID’s Center for Resilience in a presentation and discussion surrounding the role of DRM in building resilience.