About ICDRI

The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI 2021) is an interactive virtual conference which follows International Workshops on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) held in 2018 and 2019. ICDRI is the annual international conference of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in partnership with member countries, organizations and institutions to strengthen the global discourse on disaster and climate resilient infrastructure.

Where

Online

When

Wednesday to Friday
17-19 March 2021

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ICDRI 2021 Session Videos

18 March 2021

REGIONAL FORUM: 1 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) - Pacific Island Countries

TECHNICAL FORUM 2: Innovation and Emerging Technologies

TECHNICAL FORUM 3: Exploring Digital Infrastructure Resilience

Announcement of ‘Youth for Resilient Infrastructure’ Essay Competition Result

TECHNICAL FORUM 4: Urban Resilience

REGIONAL FORUM 2: Small Island Developing States (SIDS) - Caribbean Island Countries

19 March 2021

TECHNICAL FORUM 5: Finance for Resilient Infrastructure

TECHNICAL FORUM 6: Recovery and Reconstruction

POLICY FORUM 2: Governance and Policy

CDRI Resilient Infrastructure Marketplace: Exhibition

Inaugural Session

Shri-Narendra-Modi

Shri Narendra Modi

Honourable Prime Minister of India

Speaker 3

The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP

Honourable Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speaker 3

H.E. Mr. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama

Honourable Prime Minister of Fiji

Mario-Draghi-OMRI

Mr. Mario Draghi OMRI

Honourable Prime Minister of Italy

Keynote Speakers

Speaker 3

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Honourable Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Government of India

Speaker 3

Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri

Honourable Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India

Speaker 3

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

Honourable Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Government of India

Speaker 3

Dr. P. K. Mishra

Principal Secretary to Prime Minister of India

Speaker 3

Dr. Prof. K. VijayRaghavan

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

Jagan-Shah

Dame Meg Taylor

Secretary General, Pacific Islands Forum

John J. Haley

Dr. Anil Kakodkar

Former-Chairman Atomic Energy Commission

Douglas-Wilber

Dr. Douglas Wilbert Slater

Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, CARICOM

Conference Speakers

Speaker 3

Ms. Mami Mizutori

Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Speaker 4

Prof. Jim W. Hall

Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford

Haward-Well

Mr. Kamal Kishore

Member, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India and Indian Co-Chair of CDRI’s Executive Committee

Speaker 5

Ms. Paola Albrito

Chief of Branch for the Intergovernmental Processes, Interagency Cooperation and Partnership,UNDRR

Speaker 5

Ms. Lauren Anders Brown

Global Health Film Producer

Gloria-Steele

Ms. Gloria Steele

Acting Administrator, USAID

Jagan-Shah

H.E. Mr. Satoshi SUZUKI

Ambassador of Japan to India

John J. Haley

Mr. John J. Haley

Chief Executive Officer, Director of Willis Towers Watson

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Blogs

‘Health outcomes at their best are numbers but bringing meaning to those numbers is what can create real change’
By: Lauren Anders Brown

I am best known for empathetic storytelling and using a camera to bring audiences into worlds they would never have access to otherwise. In 2016, I was determined to tell the story of the perfect maternal health outcomes at Al-Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, told through the eyes of a six-year-old girl as she was about to become a big sister.


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Innovation is key to climate-proofing infrastructure
By: Abinash Mohanty and Shuva Raha

Infrastructure is intrinsic to every aspect of our lives. However, we tend to consider infrastructure only as discrete assets such as roads and buildings, as opposed to collective sets of systems and services that must function in continuous synchrony to provide us with food, water, accommodation, energy, transportation, telecommunications, governance, and security.


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How resilient is our ‘digital’ world?
By Mr. Abhilash Panda

Technology is now all around us. The digital transformation we have seen over the last few years has increased the emphasis on being ‘always on-line’. Take India for example, in 2015 India had 7.5 percent of its population connected to the Internet, by 2019 this percentage increased to 34 percent (WB data). Indian mobile data users consume 8.3 gigabytes (GB) of data each month on average, in fact India is digitizing faster than any other country (McKinsey).

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Press & Resources

FM Sitharaman urges advanced economies to scale up climate change financing commitments
PUBLISHED ON March 19 March, 2021 |  
US pledges $9.2 mn to support climate resilient infrastructure under CDRI
PUBLISHED ON March 20 March, 2021 |  
ICDRI 2021 Day 3: Bulletin
PUBLISHED ON MAR 19, 2021  
India, UK to host global meet on disaster risk, resilience this week
PUBLISHED ON MAR 16, 2021 | by Jayashree Nandi  
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