UKADR Strategy 2024 – 28

UKADR exists to bring together disaster researchers based in the UK and the UK Overseas Territories to support efforts to minimise disaster impacts on people and society at all levels (including through climate change adaptation) and advance sustainable, resilient development. Our activities link with the ambitions and goals of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–30, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Paris Agreement.

We are mobilising our resources, expertise, networks, and influence to achieve this purpose, and over the next 5 years will focus on four objectives. We work:

  1. To build a thriving and inclusive community of researchers, enhancing disaster risk research and its impact through networking and creating spaces for dialogue and sharing of experiences and lessons learned.
  2. To strengthen innovative, needs-driven disaster and climate research, working with diverse actors to advance global capabilities relating to all aspects of disaster risk management, including but not limited to disaster risk reduction, prevention and preparedness, disaster response, reconstruction, recovery and resilience and climate change adaptation, and strengthening capacity to work across disciplines and sectors.
  3. To engage critically with UK National, Devolved, and Local Government, actively promoting a disaster risk reduction agenda, representing the UK disaster research community with a coherent voice, and fostering knowledge exchange between researchers and UK-based policymakers.
  4. To contribute to national, regional, and global actions to minimise disaster impacts, working with appropriate individuals and organisations (governmental, non-governmental, and other disaster related alliances) to strengthen disaster risk reduction policy and practice at local to global scales, including work to shape implementation and monitoring of the Sendai Framework and related and subsequent UN agreements.

These four objectives will shape our work over the next five years, together with the core values set out in our constitution. To deliver these objectives we recognise the need to secure financial resources and strengthen internal policies and structures to ensure the organisation is resilient and sustainable.

26th March 2024