4th International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Context

Recently, Prime Minister addressed the inaugural session of the fourth edition of the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI).

What is ICDRI?

• The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) is an annual international conference and platform to continue building an engaged global community for disaster and climate resilient infrastructure.
• The conference is organised by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).
• It brings together stakeholders from partner countries representing national disaster risk management agencies, key infrastructure sectors, private sector and many multilateral institutions.
• The Conference provides an opportunity to address issues around infrastructure transitions, risk governance and finance, and putting people at the centre of building resilient infrastructure.

About CDRI

• CDRI is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks, the private sector, academic and knowledge institutions.
• It is led and managed by national governments, where knowledge is generated and exchanged on different aspects of disaster resilience of infrastructure.
• Aim: To promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.
• CDRI promotes rapid development of resilient infrastructure to respond to the Sustainable Development Goals’.
• The CDRI Secretariat is based in New Delhi, India.
• The Formation of CDRI was on September 23, 2019.
• As of March 2021, 29 members, consisting of 22 national governments and 7 organizations have joined CDRI.

CDRI India

• CDRI was first proposed by our Prime Minister during the 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in New Delhi.
• CDRI was then approved in 2019 for which the Government of India also pledged financial support of ?480 crore towards the CDRI corpus.

Need for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

• The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) highlights the role of improved disaster resilience of infrastructure as a cornerstone for sustainable development.
• The SFDRR includes four specific targets related to loss reduction:
• Reduce global disaster mortality.
• Reduce the number of affected people.
• Reduce direct disaster economic loss.
• Reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure.
• Target (4) on infrastructure is an important prerequisite to achieving the other loss reduction targets set out in the framework.