UN/ISDR - United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Published purpose

This grant represents Canada's institutional support to the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Secretariat. The ISDR uses these funds, along with other donor funding, to achieve its mandate. The ISDR's mandate is to catalyze, facilitate and mobilize the commitment and resources of national, regional and international stakeholders of the ISDR system to build the resilience of nations and communities to disasters through the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action. The ISDR promotes increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters.