Coalition for Disaster Resilient
Infrastructure
India- Japan Environment Week
New Delhi | 12 January 2023
MONA CHHABRA ANAND
Director, Research and Knowledge Management

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
Launched at the UN
Climate Action
Summit on 23
September 2019.

CDRI
Secretariat isbased in New
Delhi, India.

A multi-stakeholder partnership of national
governments, UN agencies and programmes,
multilateral development banks and financing
mechanisms, the private sector and knowledge
institutions that aims to promote the resilience ofinfrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks,
thereby ensuring sustainable development.

2CDRI Membership
As of December 2022
AFGHANISTANFRANCEMAURITIUS

ARGENTINAGERMANYMONGOLIA

AUSTRALIA

GHANA

NEPAL

BANGLADESH
BHUTANBRAZIL

HAITI
INDIA

GERMANYFRANC EMONGOLIATAJIKISTANTURKEYUNITED STATES OF
AMERICAJAPAN
AFGHANISTANBANGLADESH

INDIA

PERU

SOUTH
SUDAN

ITALY

SOUTH SUDANMALDIVES

JAPANMALDIVESMADAGASCARMADAGASCAR

PERU

FIJI
MAURITIUS

SRI LANKACHILESRI
LANKA

GHANA

BRAZIL

JAMAICAFIJI

NETHERLANDSUNITED
KINGDOM

JAMAICACANADADOMINICAN REPUBLICNETHERLANDSCANADACHILE

AUSTRALI A

ARGENTINATAJIKISTANTURKEYUNITED KINGDOMUNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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COUNTRIES6INTERNATIONALORGANIZATIONS2PRIVATE SECTOR
ORGANIZATIONS

Select Sectoral and Thematic Resilience Programmes
Transport Infrastructure Resilience Programme
Global study on Airports
Phase 1
Perception survey of airport managers
on risks and impacts of hazards• 57 countries and 111 airports• Key Observations:o Access links to airport are a key
vulnerability impacting operations.
o Financial constraint is major challenge
for redundancies in infrastructure.
o To improve adaptive capacity, periodic
vulnerability and risk assessments
based on reliable datasets are critical.

Phase 2Focused in-depth study• 12 airports in 11 countries• Current practices oninfrastructure disaster risk
management and resilience• Existing financing mechanism
and resilient investment

Sectoraland Thematic Resilience Programmes
Sectoral SelectInitiative
1: Power
Power Infrastructure Resilience Programme• Country Programmeso Indiao Mauritiuso Fijio Chileo Brazil• Current focus on Power Delivery Infrastructure(Generation, Transmission and Distribution)o Preparedness, Recovery, and Reconstructiono Risk Assessment, Standards, Governance,Infra Finance and Capacity Developmento Advisories and SOPs for Cyclone/Hurricane
affected regions around the world• Future Directiono Factoring resilience into Net-Zero Transitiono Resilient Hydrogen Infrastructureo Hydropower: Drought induced stresso Indo Pacific Region: Coastal ResilienceSelect Sectoral and Thematic Resilience Programmes
Telecommunications Sector Resilience Programme
Key Focus Areas:o Asset-scale impact: antennas, data centers,
submarine cables, landing stations, etc.

o Network-scale impact: reduced transmission
capacity, overloading of unaffected assets,
localized blackouts;

o System-scale impacts: supply chain

Current Initiatives:o National and subnational disaster risk
and resilience assessment and roadmap
for telecommunication sector, India(Assam, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat,Himachal Pradesh)o National disaster risk and resilienceassessment and roadmap for

disruptions, revenue loss to ICT dependent

telecommunication sector for three CDRI

industries, impact on disaster recovery efforts.

member countries (TBD)

Select Sectoral and Thematic Resilience Programmes
DRI Academic Network
To develop a structured engagement with academic institutions globally for offering value-addededucation, research opportunities and professional development on DRI.

CDRI Special Issue Publication and Technical Conference

Informing global discourse on climate and DRI through knowledge curationo Special Issue Publication launched at COP27
o DRI Technical Conference, 12-13 Oct’22 New Delhi• Theme
Adaptive Pathways for Resilient Infrastructure• Partners
Taylor and Francis, Informa PLC

THANK YOU