Fighting Inequality for a Resilient Future – Special edition for the 2023 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Today, 13 October, is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Inequality and disaster vulnerability are two sides of the same coin: the impacts of disasters exacerbate inequalities and push the most at risk further into poverty; while unequal access to services, such as finance and insurance, leaves the most at-risk even more exposed to the danger of disasters.

To mark the International Day, UNDRR offers a spread of new resources to further our fight against inequality, and shape a vision of a more resilient future.

• Spread the word about how you’re fighting inequality for a more resilient future! Join the conversation around IDDRR on social media to help raise awareness of the need for disaster risk reduction that includes everyone – especially those most at risk. We have prepared social assets that you can share across your channels, and that you can customize with your own messages on tackling poverty and inequality to reduce disaster risks.

  Share your experience

• Get involved in a global event or an event near you. The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) website includes a list of events to commemorate the day, and the theme of fighting inequality for a resilient future. Are you holding an event that isn’t listed? It isn’t too late – submit your event now!

  Get involved – act now!

• Explore the 2023 Global Survey Report on Persons with Disabilities and Disasters The results of this wide-ranging study – and the first global look at how persons with disabilities perceive current national and local disaster risk reduction measures since 2013 –show limited progress in disability inclusion over the past 10 years, with no significant differences across the regions. The report lays out clear guidance for governments and society at large to address this serious deficit.

  Read the report

• Listen to the stories of those are adapting, innovating, and advocating for resilience in the face of floods, heatwaves, wildfires, and other disasters. Faces of resilience offers twelve perspectives that reflect the human spirit's capacity to persevere, prepare for change, and work together to build a more sustainable and resilient future.

  Read their stories, and help those who are most at-risk in their fight against inequality by spreading the word on social media

“We must break this cycle of inequality, disaster, repeat.” Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, in her IDDRR messages, said: “Inequality, in all its forms, is a major driver of disaster risk. That is because poverty and inequality create the conditions that force communities to live in hazardous areas, with weak infrastructure and housing. Inequality inhibits access to information, services and warnings.”

Watch Mami Mizutori’s full 2023 IDDRR message

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