- Current Affairs 19th March 2019. International workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI-2019) begins in New Delhi.
- The 2-day event is being organized by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
- It will bring together countries from different parts of the world, multilateral development banks, UN agencies, academia, and research institutions.
- The workshop aims to
i) identify good practices of disaster risk management in key infrastructure sectors,
ii) identify specific areas and pathways for collaborative research on DRI (Transport, Energy, Telecom and Water),
iii) discuss and co-create the broad contours of the Coalition for Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) as well as a notional roll-out plan for the next three years, and
iv) build a forum for members to work on areas of common interest and make specific commitments.
Published On : 19 Mar 2019
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