Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building in LLDCs: From Commitment to Action

Venue: Awaza, Turkmenistan
Join: In-Person

Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) face unique and compounding challenges in achieving sustainable development due to their geographic constraints and heightened vulnerability to climate-induced disasters such as droughts, floods, and glacier melt. These impacts affect essential sectors like agriculture, water access, and infrastructure, and are worsened by dependencies on transit countries, natural resource-based economies, border closures, and global shocks like COVID-19. Recognizing these vulnerabilities, the 2024–2034 Programme of Action identifies enhancing adaptive capacity and disaster resilience as a top priority, committing to actions in climate adaptation, DRR, financing, technology transfer, and ecosystem protection.

Despite their efforts under the Sendai Framework, LLDCs struggle with limited financial and technical capacity to fully implement disaster risk reduction measures. The new Programme of Action emphasizes mobilizing diverse funding sources and international cooperation to close investment gaps. Enhanced global and regional partnerships—especially with transit countries—are essential to build resilient infrastructure and economies. Strengthening regional integration and capacity for risk management, while proactively identifying and mitigating future risks, will be critical for fostering long-term resilience and inclusive development in LLDCs.