1. Global Risk Identification Program WMO 15 th 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) Identification of high risk areas and risk factors that cause disasters (foreseeable risk) Hyogo Framework for Action Priority 2 Hyogo Framework for Action Priority 2 Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks UNDP/BCPR Strategy for Disaster Prevention UNDP/BCPR Strategy for Disaster Prevention common understanding of crises established common understanding of crises established joint stakeholder risk assessment conducted joint stakeholder risk assessment conducted

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

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

5. National land use planning: Lebanon

6. Disaster Loss Data

8. Global Risk Update

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