Vision
A future where hazards don’t become disasters
AIDR’s mission
AIDR is the national institute for disaster risk reduction and resilience.
AIDR creates, curates and mobilises knowledge, promotes shared language and responsibility, and builds sector capability and collaboration. AIDR works in DRR to build trust, remove barriers, and support a strong, connected knowledge system that underpins informed decision making and action before, during and after disasters.
Our purpose
In line with national and international frameworks including the Sendai Framework, the Sustainable
Development Goals and the National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework, AIDR recognises DRR encompasses preventing and reducing risk, enhancing preparedness for effective response, and supporting recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction that build back better.
By minimising new and existing risks and managing those that remain, DRR helps prevent hazards from becoming disasters. When risk is understood, governed, invested in and managed inclusively, losses can be reduced and resilience strengthened over time. These efforts help make communities, systems and environments safer, protect wellbeing, and enable social and economic life to continue with minimal disruption.
AIDR exists to strengthen DRR and resilience across policy, planning and practice by supporting governments, organisations and communities to embed these approaches from the outset.
It does this through its role as a knowledge broker by curating and mobilising knowledge, building shared understanding and capability, and connecting people and systems to support informed decision making. This work is underpinned by a system-wide approach that recognises uncertainty and complexity across sectors and locations and promotes shared responsibility and collaboration across social, economic, built, natural, cultural, political and human domains. Through national conversations and thought leadership, AIDR supports system-level change in policy and practice
The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience is based in Victoria, Australia.