PM addresses inaugural session of fourth edition of the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

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The Prime Minister addressed the inaugural session of the fourth edition of the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure(ICDRI).

What is ICDRI?

Hosted by: Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) 

Purpose: To explore ways to strengthen the resilience of transitioning infrastructure systems, with an emphasis on human-centred approaches.

What is the Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure(CDRI)?

CDRI is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks, the private sector, and academic and knowledge institutions.

Launched by: The Indian Prime Minister at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019.

Led by: CDRI is led and managed by national governments, where knowledge is generated and exchanged on different aspects of disaster resilience of infrastructure.

Secretariat: New Delhi, India.

Members: As of March 2021, 29 members consisting of 22 national governments and 7 organizations have joined CDRI.

Significance: The CDRI is the second major coalition launched by India outside of the UN, the first being the International Solar Alliance. Both of them are seen as India’s attempts to obtain a global leadership role in climate change matters.

Source: The post is based on the article “PM addresses inaugural session of fourth edition of the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure” published in PIB on 4th May 2022.