UNESCO Chair DRR-RE joins 45th Anniversary reception and Strategy Launch of RedR UK

Humanitarian NGO RedR UK celebrated its 45th anniversary and strategy launch for 2025-2027, at an annual reception on 7 May 2025, hosted by its long-standing partner Arup, at its Charlotte Street offices, and invited several members of the UNESCO Chair DRR-RE team to attend the event. RedR has been influential in enabling disaster response through learning and development, by delivering expertly-guided training to strengthen a humanitarian workforce that is skilled, confident, and ready to act in times of crisis caused by natural hazards and conflicts. The event brought together RedR’s diverse community of staff, partners, and supporters from across the engineering and humanitarian sectors to celebrate its achievements and reaffirm its continued commitment to driving impact through its strategic priorities amidst emerging global challenges (https://redr.org.uk/publication/redr-uk-2025-reception/). The highlight of the evening was the talk of the RedR’s President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, who emphasised the importance of technical knowledge in delivering humanitarian support and working closely with local responders to strengthen existing humanitarian capacities.  The UNESCO Chair DRR-RE shares a common ethos with RedR of continued efforts in building disaster resilience through local capacity building, enhancing the organizational capacity of humanitarian services and engineering response in emergencies and climate change, and looks forward to strengthening existing collaborations.

Below are some pictures of the event: