Key international standard and guidelines relevant to disaster risk reduction

The document consolidates existing international standards and guidelines relevant to DRR and building climate resilience. Standards and guidelines are taken primarily from UN sources. These sources include the UN Committees responsible for interpreting and monitoring implementation of human rights treaties, as well as more operational sources, such as the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and the Sphere project. Together, all the documents containing standards and guidelines run into thousands of pages. The purpose of consolidation is to provide an accessible list of key standards and guidelines that policy makers and operational actors at national and sub-national level can use to evaluate existing law and policy, and to design and implement new measures that align more closely with international standards and guidelines.

This document is a key output of the Building Resilience through Inclusive and Climate-adaptive Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia - Pacific (BRDR) Program (2018-2022), which brought together international, regional, national and sub-national partners to identify and develop effective practices for integrating human rights and gender equality into DRR.