STRATEGY 2026-30
Challenges and opportunities
GNDR’s member organisations have developed this 2030 strategy at a time of massive disruption.
Why is this not happening?
We have witnessed a hollowing out of the international aid system and the political consensus that’s supported it, the winding down of the international agreements that have shaped disaster risk reduction for the last decade or more, and all while more frequent and more severe climate-driven hazards put more communities at risk.
A shifting aid landscape
The disruption in the international aid system, and uncertainty about its future, has far-reaching implications for disaster risk reduction. We know that acting early and investing in resilience saves lives, livelihoods and places, yet the increasingly scarce resources available internationally remain focused on responding to emergencies rather than preventing them. These funds rarely reach local actors, and our network, our member organisations and the communities they serve increasingly struggle to access the resources they need to participate in and lead growing local resilience.
Global frameworks in transition
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction will conclude by 2030, and there’s still much to achieve in these final five years to deliver on its goals. The Sustainable Development Goals will also conclude in 2030, and the Secretary-General’s Early Warnings for All initiative is scheduled to end by 2027. The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, established at COP28, will become a key financing mechanism for supporting communities facing irreversible damage from climate change. The coming five years will see both a push to deliver on these existing agreements within a constrained resourcing environment, and negotiations on what will replace them and how new goals will be delivered and resourced.
An opportunity amid disruption
While recognising the loss of international momentum and the ever-growing scale of the threats communities face, this moment also offers real opportunity: for growing South-South solidarity and for making investment in locally-led resilience the norm. Our 2030 strategy focuses on how we can act and learn together more effectively, and how a global solidarity movement can help resilient people and places grow through local and inclusive leadership.