Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

About Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure:

• It is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector and academic and knowledge institutions.
• It addresses the challenges of building resilience into infrastructure systems and development associated with it. 
• It was launched during the United Nations Climate Action Summit in 2019, at New York.
• Objective:
  • It aims to promote the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks, thereby ensuring sustainable development.
  • It seeks to rapidly expand the development and retrofit of resilient infrastructure to respond to the Sustainable Development Goals imperatives of expanding universal access to basic services, enabling prosperity and decent work. 
  • It functions as inclusive multi-stakeholder platform led and managed by national governments, where knowledge is generated and exchanged on different aspects of disaster resilience of infrastructure.
  • It brings together a multitude of stakeholders to create a mechanism to assist countries to upgrade their capacities, systems, standards, regulations and practices with regard to infrastructure development in accordance with their risk context and economic needs.
• Members: Since its launch, 39 Countries, 7 International Organizations and 2 private sector organizations have joined as members of CDRI.
  • International Organisations are: Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank Group, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), European Union, European Investment Bank, The Private Sector alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE).
• Secretariat: New Delhi, India