IG-WRDRR: An international group working on wind-related disaster risk reduction

Background

The International Group for Wind-Related Disaster Risk Reduction (IG-WRDRR) was launched in Geneva (Switzerland) in 2009 at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction organised by the UN and other NGOs. The initiative was conceived to establish linkages across policy-makers, researchers and agencies responsible for  carrying out DRR and DRM at local community level, implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action in the area of wind mitigation.

It is comprised by eleven different organisations, including the International Association for Wind Engineering, (IAWE), the International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), the United Nations/International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN/ISDR), the World Metereorological Organisation (WMO) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

The initiative generated a series of events, such as the International Forum on Tornado Disaster Risk Reduction at Bangladesh (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009, 2013), the workshop on Wind-related Disaster Risk Reduction activities and the Interorganisational Collaborations and the pre-Conference Event on Climate Change and DRR strategies in Asia-Pacific Region (Incheon, Korea, 2010), the 5^th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC, Davos, Switzerland, 2014), the IAWE Public Forum at the 3^rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai, Japan, 2015).