The Federal Government's strategy for strengthening resilience to disasters (resilience strategy for short) will make Germany more resilient to crises in the long term. The Federal Government is pursuing a holistic strategic approach in order to invest in prevention and to better cope with and recover from disasters and crises: The resilience strategy shows what efforts are already being made to this end and where overarching action is required in five specific fields of action:
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<li>Understanding disaster risk.</li>
<li>Strengthen intuitions to manage disaster risk.</li>
<li>Invest in disaster risk reduction to strengthen resilience.</li>
<li>Improve disaster preparedness and enable better recovery.</li>
<li>International cooperation</li>
</ul>
Crises and disasters have accompanied mankind since time immemorial. However, our recent past, our present and a look into the future show that crises and disasters present us with new and changing challenges. In Germany, risk and crisis management are national tasks and an integral part of our security architecture. Security is a fundamental human need for which the state bears a special responsibility. We must therefore place people at the centre of our initiatives to strengthen resilience to disasters.

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German strategy to strengthen resilience to disasters: Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) - Germany's contribution 2022-2030 (Summary)

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