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