This Community of Practice (CoP) focuses on advancing practical approaches to strengthen resilience of seaport infrastructure systems through the development of measurable and actionable resilience indicators. The CoP, jointly convened by CDRI and ICSI, will bring together stakeholders from port authorities, governments, international organizations, financial institutions, and technical agencies. It will serve as a platform for knowledge exchange, technical collaboration, and co-development of resilience indicators across asset, operational, and system levels. The primary audience includes port operators, infrastructure planners, policymakers, development partners, and resilience experts. Expected outcomes include a validated set of resilience indicators, a technical guidance document, identification of key resilience challenges, and a roadmap for technical assistance and capacity building to support climate-resilient seaport systems globally.

Housing, along with basic services – such as water supply, sanitation, power and allied social infrastructure facilities – is collectively termed as “habitat” and is increasingly at risk due to intensifying climate-induced and geological hazards. In most major disasters, housing remains one of the most affected sectors. CDRI’s GIRI data platform estimates the Average Annual Loss (AAL) including potential future climate impacts and the estimated risk to buildings, including housing, schools and hospitals due to climate and geohazards to be up to US$ 431 billion globally (CDRI, 2023).This Community of Practice will explore how climate and disaster resilience can be achieved in both formal and informal housing settlements and will unpack the challenges and innovations related to financing, technology, community participation, governance, and traditional knowledge. It will also provide CDRI an opportunity to further understand the needs, challenges and opportunities for building resilience of the housing sector and collect insights to enrich its support to member countries in building resilience of housing – including the development of new assets, retrofitting, and post-disaster recovery.This CoP will discuss and produce a knowledge piece which will enrich further discussions to achieve resilience of housing globally.   CDRI (2023). Global Infrastructure Resilience: Capturing the Resilience Dividend - A Biennial Report from the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, New Delhi.

This Community of Practice (CoP) aims to strengthen collaborative engagement and facilitate seamless knowledge exchange across the BIMSTEC member countries, which include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The CoP is designed to enhance knowledge sharing on sustainable and resilient infrastructure planning, policies, and practices. The primary objective is to catalyse discussions among stakeholders and foster collaborative solutions to the challenges faced by these countries. The CoP will also help in identifying and addressing training and capacity-building needs. Ongoing discussions around priorities, ambitions, and actionable points will be key components of the CoP’s work

The CoP will highlight that infrastructure resilience is a vital pillar of climate adaptation and can significantly enhance national efforts to achieve the Global Goal on Adaptation. The CoP will convene governments, experts, and infrastructure practitioners to develop actionable recommendations for embedding DRI within national adaptation strategies and planning processes.

The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme heat events is posing unprecedented challenges to educational infrastructure globally, particularly in urban areas and resource-constrained settings. By 2050, nearly 2.02 billion children—almost every child in the world—will be exposed to heatwaves (UNICEF, 2023). Children are physiologically more vulnerable to heat stress, and poor school infrastructure often exacerbates the issue. Extreme heat not only threatens the health and well-being of students but also undermines learning outcomes, exacerbates inequalities, and disrupts access to education. Recognizing the urgency of this challenge, CDRI is convening a Community of Practice to bring together global experts, practitioners, and policymakers. Over a four-month period, the Community will foster structured dialogue, document best practices, and develop actionable guidance to build heat-resilient school systems.

This Community of Practice (CoP) seeks to strengthen collaborative engagement and seamless knowledge flow across the SIDS. It is expected to enhance knowledge creation and sharing on sustainable and resilient infrastructure planning, policies and practices. The primary objective is to catalyze conversations between stakeholders and promote collaborative solution(s) for the challenges faced by SIDS. The collective wisdom of the CoP will also help in garnering the training and capacity-building needs of SIDS. Continued discussion(s) on SIDS’ priorities & ambitions, outlined by ABAS, and the action points will be one of the key objectives of the CoP.

This Community of Practice (CoP) will act as a forum to share knowledge, bring together diverse stakeholders and institutions, exchange good practices and collaborate on solutions towards bolstering health infrastructure resilience. Under an initial two-year action plan, the CoP will build a network of experts working at the intersection of disaster and climate risks, healthcare, health infrastructure and critical infrastructure sectors, and will include thematic Working Groups. 

In 2022, CDRI seeded a Community of Practice (CoP) on Resilient Infrastructure for Energy Transition, envisaged to serve as a knowledge exchange and co-creation platform advancing disaster resilience of infrastructure within the energy transition discourse. Post in-depth discussions with stakeholders such as the IEA, WMO and ADB, Early Warning Systems (EWS) for Hydropower Sector Resilience was identified as an immediate priority area. The Community of Practice (CoP) on Resilient Infrastructure for Energy Transition through its focus on Early Warning Systems (EWS) for Building Climate Resilience in the Hydropower Sector thus, aims to promote medium to long-term climate change adaptation and strengthen the resilience of hydropower in flood-prone or drought-prone regions through robust EWS mechanisms. Outcomes and Impact: The initiative has been designed to promote the development of robust climate databases, enhance local capacity needs, and address technical hurdles, with a special focus on upgrading Early Warning Systems (EWS) in the hydropower sector. Additionally, it aims to ensure better financial flows, coordinate resilient infrastructure development, and help achieve benefits for all involved stakeholders, holistically.

Making tomorrow’s infrastructure sustainable and resilient requires investments in high caliber research and innovation today. Recognizing the need for solutions in DRI, the CDRI Fellowship Programme was launched in September 2020 with a vision to develop a global multi-disciplinary pool of future-ready professionals from CDRI Member Countries who would help shape a resilient future for global infrastructure systems. A 12-month seed grant, the Fellowship provides financial support as well as peer learning and capacity development opportunities to foster transformative, actionable and scalable solutions for real world issues related to disaster resilience of infrastructure. Promising solutions with demonstrated applicability and potential for scale emerging from the Programme will be disseminated through the Coalition’s network and opportunities for their implementation across contexts will be identified.