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UR 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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2018 Understanding Risk Forum
Check out highlights and reflections from #UR2018 in Mexico City, México! May 14-18, 2018
May 14 - 18, 2018 | Mexico City, Mexico
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UR Balkans 2018 Belgrade, Serbia 17-19 September 2018 The UR+ Balkans Conference will convene leading experts and practitioners from diverse sectors to consider the future of risk, climate change, and resilience in the region. UR Finance Pacific 2018 Port Vila, Vanuatu 16-19 October 2018 From October 16-19th, the Understanding Risk Finance Pacific forum will take place in Port Vila, Vanuatu, bringing together policymakers, financial risk managers, and development partners, from the region and around globe, to strengthen regional collaboration on climate and disaster risk finance in the Pacific. URf Pacific will offer a platform to explore the challenges and opportunities of managing disaster risk in Pacific Island Countries (PICs), and Small Island States more broadly. UR Tanzania 2018 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania August 29–30, 2018 Urban Resilience for Tanzania. URTZ 2018 will focus on the understanding of urban risk – showcasing new spatial tools and risk data developed in Tanzania that can empower stakeholders to identify and reduce risks.

Initiatives

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Open Data for Resilience Initiative The Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) applies the concepts of the global open data movement to the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. Challenge Fund GFDRR and DFID's competitive Challenge Fund pilots new and innovative approaches to overcoming these challenges and strengthens disaster and climate risk decision-making in developing countries.

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Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) e-learning course This short course provides an overview of the approach and toolset developed by the Open Data for Resilience Initiative. Understanding Risk Evaluation In order to understand how UR can better serve the community, the managing team commissioned an independent evaluation of the community and its activities.

News

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Breaking the Link Between Extreme Weather and Extreme Poverty The impact of extreme weather on poverty is far more devastating than previously understood—outstripping all other estimates by as much as 60%. We can do much more to protect poor people from the shocks of natural disasters, which, as the report shows, cost the global economy $520 billion and force some 26 million people into poverty every year.