1. Global Risk Identification Program WMO 15th Congress Side event on strengthening national and regional partnerships on disaster risk reduction

2. Strategic Alignment • Identification of high risk areas and risk factors that cause disasters (foreseeable risk) • Hyogo Framework for Action Priority 2 • Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks • UNDP/BCPR Strategy for Disaster Prevention • common understanding of crises established • joint stakeholder risk assessment conducted

3. Strategic Alignment • Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction • service line 1: analytical and advisory services • risk identification • service line 2: institutional capacity building • national risk and loss information & applications • service line 3: training and capacity building • IABD Disaster Prevention Sector Facility • risk identification and forecasting to understand and quantify vulnerability and disaster risk

4. Core Risk Identification Support • GRIP Goal: • reduced natural hazard-related losses in high risk areas to promote sustainable development • GRIP Objectives: • improved evidence base for disaster risk management • increased adoption of disaster risk management

5. National land use planning: Lebanon

6. Disaster Loss Data

7. Disaster Loss Data

8. Global Risk Update

9. Key WMO/NMHS contributions • Drought and flood hazard: • Methodologies and tools for hazard analysis and mapping as an input to risk assessment • Improvement of national to global drought and flood databases • Guidelines for standardizing hazard typologies in disaster socio-economic losses databases • National risk assessment capacity development projects in priority high-risk countries • Flood and drought hazard analysis and mapping as an input to risk assessments • Hazard characterization for loss databases