The risk knowledge hub for the global DRR community
PreventionWeb facilitates the work of disaster risk reduction (DRR) professionals, turning individual knowledge products and data into actionable insights for resilience.
PreventionWeb makes your work easier and more impactful, whether you prevent disasters and contribute to reducing risk in high-risk or low-risk countries.
PreventionWeb is a global community and welcomes content submissions. The site is managed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
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PreventionWeb users value the platform as a source of trusted and timely information, from a wide range of sources.
This is reflected in the feedback shared by users: 83% rate their visit from outstanding to good.
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Transforming risk information into resilience: The scope of PreventionWeb
PreventionWeb's risk knowledge library covers disaster risk reduction (DRR), disaster risk management (DRM), climate change adaptation (CCA), and disaster resilience. PreventionWeb is community-driven, and features content submitted by its users as well as original blog pieces written by members of the DRR community.
Features
- Scalable and replicable DRM initiatives from around the world.
- Resources that enhance understanding of catastrophe risk and systemic vulnerabilities.
- Insights and updates on efforts to achieve the Sendai Framework targets.
- Coverage on multiple hazards, such as climate change-related, pandemics, earthquakes, heatwaves, etc.
- Stories from under-represented voices — gender, youth, Indigenous knowledge, local leadership.
- Professional resources for DRR professionals such as access to training and conferences.
- Advocacy materials that promote inclusive, risk-informed development.
- Coverage of disaster response, relief, and emergency management, where relevant to preparedness and resilience-building.
PreventionWeb’s core mission
- Share by democratizing access to intelligible, actionable risk knowledge and information about the nature of disaster risk and how to reduce it.
- Connect professionals, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers through shared understanding and collaboration.
- Facilitate learning by providing tools and resources that support innovation, and capacity-building in civil protection, emergency management, climate adaptation, and resilience planning.
By transforming risk data into knowledge and knowledge into action, PreventionWeb helps the DRR community shape a safer, more resilient future for all.
Join the global DRR community on PreventionWeb to share solutions, track progress, and build resilience together. Learn more about what you can do with and on PreventionWeb below.
Several years ago, a colleague of mine termed PreventionWeb as a "Treasure Trove" for DRR. I suspected that as an overstatement. However, having used the site for many years in connection to my research and evaluation projects, I should think that it has lived up to our expectations very well.
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Know and understand
PreventionWeb offers a knowledge base as well as valuable insights on preventing disasters.
Share and publish
We welcome content that meets our content submission policy.
Explore
Geographic and topical concepts offer lenses into DRR publications, events, and news.
Develop and grow
A wealth of resources to grow your skills and career.
Connect
Engage with the DRR community.
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Recent site developments
Have a look at the latest features and improvements to PreventionWeb, designed to enhance your experience:
- Updates to policies and plans pages: We’ve refreshed our policies and plans pages and content to better serve our community.
- Access case studies from around the world, the latest proven solutions, and original voices from the field of DRR.
- Explore the updated Hazard Information Profiles.
- PreventionWeb on LinkedIn: Stay up to date with the latest news, research, and jobs related to disaster risk reduction.
- Keeping up with trends, we have created new topic guides and collections on past disasters, and updated the knowledge base themes and hazard categories.
- Have a look at our latest articles aggregating content on the best solutions and insights from the PreventionWeb library.
- Access podcast episodes.
Updated: January 2026
Site traffic and publishing information
- 315,000 visits each month
- 10,500 visits per day on average
- 89,000 pieces of content in the knowledge base
- 350 entries published each month
- 210 News articles
- 110 Publications
- 30 Events
- 11,500 subscribers to the mailing list
LinkedIn PreventionWeb newsletter
- 430,000 subscribers
- 4,460,000 article views
- 72,300 views on release day
- 11,700 engagements
Data for 2025
2025 Publishing summary
- 2,500 News
- 1,300 Documents & publications
- 360 Events
- 51 Blogs
Data from 1 January–31 December 2025
Site status
There are currently no known stability incidents.
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