International Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

(Ministry of Home Affairs)

 

WHAT

The Union Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval for the Establishment of an International Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).

• The CDRI is proposed to be launched at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, USA on 23rd September 2019.

 

Ex-post facto approval

Approval for a project that’s given ex post facto—after the project already has been begun or completed—may just have been given in order to save face.

 

Approval for the following:

• Establishment of the International ‘C.D.R.I.’ along with its supporting Secretariat office in New Delhi.
• Establishment of the Secretariat of the CDRI as a Society under The Societies Registration Act,1860 in New Delhi.
• The memorandum of association and by-laws of the ‘CDRI Society’ will be prepared and finalized by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), in due course.
• In-principle approval for the Government of India’s support of Rs. 480 crore to CDRI for a corpus required to fund technical assistance and research projects on an on-going basis.

 

IMPACT

• It will serve as a platform for exchange of knowledge on different aspects of disaster and climate resilience of infrastructure.
• It will create a mechanism to assist countries to upgrade their capacities with regard to infrastructure development in accordance with their risk context and economic needs
• This initiative will benefit all sections of society.
• It will bring together technical expertise from a multitude of stakeholders.
• It will also benefit all areas with high disaster risk.
• In India, the north-eastern and Himalayan regions are prone to earthquakes, coastal areas to cyclones and tsunamis and central peninsular region to droughts.
• A global coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure would address concerns that are common to developing and developed countries, countries at early and advanced stages of infrastructure development, and countries that have moderate or high disaster risk.

 

WAY AHEAD

Focus on DRI would address the loss reduction targets under the Sendai Framework, address a number of Sustainable Development Goals and also contribute to climate change adaptation.

 

Source: PIB

 

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