About CDRI

• • Launched in 2019 under the leadership of the Government of India, the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is an international collaborative platform, aiming to promote the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks, thereby ensuring sustainable development. 
  • CDRI envisions enabling measurable reduction in infrastructure losses from disasters, including extreme climate events. 
  • CDRI is a multi-stakeholder global partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academic and knowledge institutions. 
  • At present, it is not an intergovernmental organization, which are ordinarily treaty-based organizations.
  • CDRI has also created a dedicated initiative “Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS)”, which will work to achieve sustainable development through a systematic approach to promote resilient, sustainable and inclusive infrastructure in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

• Members of CDRI: 39 countries and 7 organisations.

Governance

• Governance arrangements for CDRI Secretariat comprises three principal bodies, viz., the Governing Council (highest policy-making body), the Executive Committee (managerial body) and the Secretariat in New Delhi headed by a Director General appointed by the Governing Council. 
• The Government of India will be a permanent Co-Chair of the Governing Council of CDRI and a representative of another national government nominated by rotation every two years.