The nature of our modern world means shocks, stresses and crisis brought about by the interaction between climate change, ecosystem fragility, unplanned urbanization, political or financial instability reverberate globally.

Disasters – where natural hazards negatively meet people – are coming faster, lasting longer and hitting harder. The people hit hardest are those who have done the least to cause these significant changes – the poorest.

EMDRRIN works at the intersection between understanding risk and risk impact: reducing disaster loss and preventing the emergence of new risk.

Nothing undermines development like a disaster. And there is no denying that disasters of any kind are expensive: to human life and economies. The world has been stuck in a vicious cycle of disaster > response > dependency > repeat.

But there are solutions: every Nigeria Naira(1) invested in risk reduction and prevention can save up to Nigeria (15) in post-disaster recovery. Every Naira (1) invested in making infrastructure disaster-resilient saves Naira (4) in reconstruction.

We believe that risk can be reduced. We believe that disasters don’t have to devastate.