The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

GFDRR was established in September 2006
as a global partnership of the World Bank, UN agencies and
bilateral donors, located in World Bank headquarters in
Washington, DC. Its missions are (a) to mainstream disaster
reduction and climate change adaptation (CCA) in country
development strategies, and (b) to foster and strengthen
global and regional cooperation among various stakeholders
under the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
(ISDR) system. GFDRR supports the implementation of the UN
2005-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). This
international agreement in relation to disaster risk
reduction (DRR) arose from a 168-nation UN conference held
in Kyoto, Japan, in 2005. The key player for coordinating
the implementation of HFA is the UNISDR bureau with
headquarters in Geneva and eight regional offices worldwide.
Another UN agency with operational responsibility for UN
disaster related work is the UNDP-BCPR. These two UN
agencies and GFDRR have complementary goals, creating
potential for collaboration among the three organizations,
but also calling for care in monitoring the risk of
overlapping work among them and other DRR actors. UNISDR was
a founding partner of GFDRR and UNDP-BCPR became a permanent
observer to GFDRR in 2008.