Global Assessment Report

Revealing Risk, Redefining Development

The GAR is a comprehensive review and analysis of the natural hazards that affect us. It comes out every two years.

GAR13 (on Twitter) will be launched in May 2013. It will look at how public regulation and private investment shape disaster risk.

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"The risk of disaster touches every woman, man and child on Earth."

-- Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General in the Foreword of GAR 2009

The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is a biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction and comprehensive review and analysis of the natural hazards that are affecting humanity. The GAR contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA) through monitoring risk patterns and trends and progress in disaster risk reduction while providing strategic policy guidance to countries and the international community.

The GAR aims to help focus international attention on the problem and need to address disaster risk and consolidate political and economic support to disaster risk reduction.

The preparation of the GAR is coordinated and supervised by UNISDR.

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The Report is produced in collaboration and consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, including various UN agencies, governments, academic and research institutions, donors and technical organizations and specialists.

Global Assessment Report 2013

The 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - From Share Risk to Shared Value: the Business case for Disaster Risk Reduction - will be launched globally starting in New York on May 15th. Watch this space for more information on the report.

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Global Assessment Report 2011

The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - revealing risk, redefining development - contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework of Action by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it also provides guidance and suggestions to governments and non-governmental actors alike, on how they can, together, reduce disaster risks.

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Global Assessment Report 2009

The 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) was launched in Bahrain on May 17, 2009. The Report provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated.

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