Group Discussions

These sessions will foster collaboration, idea exchange, and networking. Participants will share their insights, learn from one another, and build valuable connections, offering a diverse perspective on DRR challenges and solutions.

Discussion Themes

  • Building Resilience: Exploring Role of Communities in Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction
  • Climate Change beyond Water: Highlighting other devastating disasters including heatwaves, air pollution & locust infestation
  • Identifying global best practices on anticipatory action and steering indigenized implementation in Pakistan
  • Leveraging advance technologies for early warning systems and using artificial intelligence / machine learning for hazard detection & prediction and risk assessment
  • Making cities resilient and safer: Navigating the challenges of urbanization and integrating disaster risk reduction in urban administrative landscape
  • Scaling up partnerships for resilience: Enhancement of regional foras for transboundary and cascading disaster risk reduction

Discussion Schedule

It is to inform that due to unavoidable circumstances & administrative instructions, the PIEDRR Pakistan’s 1st International Expo on DRR – 2024 (planned from 23 to 25 April 2024) at Islamabad, Pakistan has been rescheduled. Fresh dates will be communicated in due course of time; to all esteemed participants. Inconvenience, if any, is sincerely regretted. Regards NDMA, Pakistan.