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Governance

The institutional structures and processes that drive decision-making and management of DRR programs at regional, national and local level. This theme also includes institutions, legislations, policies and coordination mechanisms such as regional and national platforms.

UN Member States are exploring a legally binding instrument to better protect people before, during, and after disasters.

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Policies and plans
National policies and plans
Multi-hazard early warnings for all: Roadmap for Samoa

The Multi-Hazard Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Roadmap for Samoa 2026–2036 outlines Samoa’s strategy for strengthening its national early warning systems to better prepare for and respond to natural hazards and climate-related disasters.

Samoa - government
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Documents and publications
Loss and damage beyond economics: exploring health as a non-economic loss in national climate planning

The report offers a snapshot of how health-related Loss and Damage is reflected in national climate policy documents, examining the extent to which physical health, mental health, and health systems are integrated into climate planning and action.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Update
Government changes in Bangladesh and West Bengal could impact river treaties

In India and Bangladesh, two recent changes of government on either side of the border have brought two shared river systems into focus: the Ganges and the Teesta.

Dialogue Earth
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Blog
Rhiannon Hawkins Carina Fearnley
Unifying climate and disaster risk management: Linking UNDRR and the UNFCCC through the Nairobi Work Programme to strengthen adaptation
The sixty-fourth session of the Subsidiary Bodies under the UNFCCC SB64, held in Bonn, Germany, from 8–18 June 2026, offered encouraging examples of dialogue and collaboration on climate change impacts.
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Policies and plans
National policies and plans
Nepal: National Anticipatory Action Framework 2026

The National Anticipatory Action Framework provides the foundation for scaling up anticipatory action across Nepal.

Nepal - government
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Documents and publications
Trust, governance, and climate disasters in the Indo-Pacific

This publication examines how climate-related emergencies can create epistemic stress situations in which uncertainty, competing narratives and political contestation undermine shared understandings of risk, preparedness and institutional responsibility.

Toda Peace Institute
Documents and publications
Uncertain Governance of a “Small Disaster”. Vulnerability to Recurrent Flooding in Lomé’s Second-hand Clothing Market (Togo)

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, this article offers a socio-environmental analysis of the recurrent floods affecting the urban markets in Lomé.

VertigO
A sunrise casts its light over the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of West Los Angeles, in the aftermath of the 2025 wildfires.
Update
Knowing better, but still losing more: why disaster risk reduction breaks down

What lesson should we draw from the surviving house in Pacific Palisades during the 2025 California wildfires?

European Geosciences Union
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