IRDR annual report 2013

This report provides an update on the activities undertaken by the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme to achieve its mission of developing trans-disciplinary, multi-sectorial alliances for in-depth, practical disaster risk reduction research studies, and the implementation of effective evidence-based disaster risk policies and practices.

Section two explains the premise for the programme and how it works to address the major challenges of natural and human-induced environmental hazards. Sections three to five report in more detail on the results and impacts of the activities undertaken by IRDR’s four project working groups, Science Committee and International Programme Office and the strengthened networks of International Centres of Excellence and National Committees during the year.

The reporting follows the order of the six strategic goals outlined in the IRDR Strategic Plan 2013-2017. The Strategic Plan was discussed and adopted by IRDR’s Science Council and Co-sponsors in 2013, and builds on ICSU’s Science Plan for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (2008).