CUDRR+R participated at the Fourth Forum of Territorial Managers and Training Institutes in Africa to present the new UCLG - UN-Habitat- UNDRR Learning Module on Resilient Cities and Territories. The…
Year: 2020
Berlin Security Conference
CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer was a panelist the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Session on Climate Change and Urban Displacement at Berlin Security Conference on September 2020. The Session moderated by IIED's…
Seed Grant from Royal Academy of Engineers
We are very happy to announce that CUDRR+R and partners' project on "Low-carbon seismic resistant building model for Istanbul" received seed-funding from the UK Royal Academy of Engineers. We look…
Last Steering Committee Meeting of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign
CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer attended the final Steering Committee Meeting of UNDRR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign. The Campaign which was originally launched in 2010 is moving into a new phase to…
CUDRR+R Statement on Racial Injustice and Equitable Resilience
CUDRR+R Statement on Racial Injustice and Equitable Resilience The Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R) is a non-profit research center with a mission to produce knowledge…
Right-to-Heal
Esra Akcan, CUDRR+R Board Member and Cornell University Professor of Architecture received the prestigious Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. During her time at Harvard, Akcan researched her next book project, Right-to-heal:…
Resilience Learning Module: Localizing the Sendai Framework for DRR
United Cities Local Governments (UCLG) the international organization that represents Local Governments and their Associations tasked CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer to develop a Resilience Learning Module that will support Localization of…
Frontiers of Development: Disaster Resilience
CUDRR+R's Ebru Gencer chaired "Efficient Post-Disaster Recovery Phase that Supports Well-Being and Diversity" session at the Frontiers of Development: Disaster Resilience Symposium that took place in Istanbul during 2-4 March,…