Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Overview

Building climate resilience and reducing disaster risks

IRS Global supports governments, development partners, humanitarian agencies, and local communities in building climate resilience and reducing disaster risks through research, vulnerability assessments, policy analysis, programme evaluation, and technical advisory services.

Our expertise includes climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction (DRR), disaster risk management (DRM), climate resilience, climate vulnerability and risk assessments, community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM), resilience programming, early warning systems, disaster preparedness and response, disaster recovery and reconstruction, climate-smart development, environmental sustainability, ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), nature-based solutions, climate governance, climate finance, loss and damage assessments, resilience measurement, environmental impact assessments, climate-sensitive livelihoods, humanitarian action, implementation research, and monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL).

We generate evidence that strengthens resilience, informs climate and disaster policies, supports risk-informed development, and enables communities to adapt to emerging climate and disaster challenges.