Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR)
Disaster Risk Reduction is closely linked to sustainable development as disasters can undermine sustainable development but prevention and reduction can propel sustainable development. Within the UN, UNISDR (UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) is the focal point in the United Nations system to ensure coordination and synergies among disaster risk reduction activities of the United Nations system and regional organizations and activities in socio-economic and humanitarian fields (GA resolution 56/195). The 2015 process to agree the 15-year Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction used the major group system.
The Women’s Major Group for DRR was a main actor in advocacy and capacity building, recognizing that gender and other inequalities result in differences in experiences, opportunities, responsibilities, assets, and impacts of disaster. The WMG continues to track implementation of Sendai, to ensure women’s leadership, women’s human rights, resource allocation and accountability remain at the center.
To join the WMG for DRR, email: Eleanor@wedo.org
More information about the DRR process here
SDG 5: Intervention by APRCEM, supported by Women’s Major Group
High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, session on SDG 5 Cielito Perez, CWR, Philippines 15 July 2025, New York Thank you, Chair. I deliver this statement on behalf of APRCEM. SDG 5 or [...]
SDG3 – lead discussant intervention by APRCEM, supported by Women’s Major Group
Photo credit: IISD ENB - Kiara Worth APRCEM Lead Discussant in SDG 3 Shobha Shukla, CNS, India Thanks for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Engageme [...]
SDG 5: Lead discussant intervention at HLPF
2025 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and High-Level Segment of ECOSOC Tuesday 15 July 2025: (CR 4) 10 AM – 1 PM Statement by Lead Discussant - Fer Ghanaa Ansari during the sessio [...]
Opening statement at HLPF 2025
High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development New York, 14 July Session: Unlocking means of implementation: Mobilizing financing and STI for the SDGs My name is Veronica Brown and I deliver [...]
DRR 2019: Stakeholder Forum
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2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is pleased to invite civil society to attend the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (22-26 May 2017, Cancún, México). Down [...]
International Strategy for Disaster – Rio+20 Interssessional Meeting: Anita Nayar interventation
Read the combined statement delivered by Anita Nayar (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) on behalf of the Women's Major Group during the Rio+20 Interssional Meeting, from 15-16 Decembe [...]