Fantastic #EuropeDay2024 celebrations this evening in New Delhi

🇪🇺 a long-standing and valued member of Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, and a generous donor to the Infrastructure for Resilient Island States programme that supports #ResilientInfrastructure in Small Island Developing States

Pleasure to meet this morning with Wilfred G. Djima, a member of the team at Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi being supported by a Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure fellowship grant to make healthcare facilities resilient to earthquakes in Türkiye.

More info on the CDRI fellowship available at - cdri.world/fellowship

A great loss. When I was working with #fitandfed to alleviate #holidayhunger , Frank was a champion of the cause and instrumental in persuading the government to invest money in programmes that now support children and young people across the 🇬🇧 .

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Great to welcome 🇺🇸 Ambassador to #ICDRI2024 .

He was one of 1,400 participants from 42 countries that agreed on the need for action and investment in #adaptation and #resilientinfrastructure .

As PM of 🇮🇳 said in his remarks, we can only be resilient when we are all resilient.

Sometimes you can forget what a beautiful and green city #Delhi is. This wonderful view from the top of Taj Hotels is a beautiful reminder.

#IncredibleIndia

' #resilientinfrastructure improves quality of life, enables economic growth, & reduces service disruptions. We have to put people at the center of our conversations' - Kamal Kishore

Join world's premier conference on #DRI
#ICDRI2024 👉icdri.cdri.world

💡2⃣ days to go!

'Writing is an integral part of the process of understanding.'

— Hannah Arendt

A wonderful read.

I’ll be sat now mostly thinking about Brian Lara’s one legged pull shots and Ricky Ponting’s Cover drive for the rest of the day.

Which isn’t to say the determination of a Steve Waugh or a VVS Laxman isn’t beautiful in its own way.

Maybe that’s the point :)

- interested in helping 🇬🇧 understand 🇮🇳 better?

- good at building partnerships?

- experience in, civil society, think-tanks, public policy, etc. in #India ?

… then take a look at this role UK in India🇬🇧🇮🇳 for a #governance advisor.

Deadline is 24 April.

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Great appointment.

One more ‘mirror’ turned, as Lindy Cameron becomes High Commissioner to 🇮🇳 a mere 70 years after Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit took charge of India House in London (as the first of three female Indian High Commissioners in 🇬🇧 to date).

Huge Gender Impact !! Almost 600 million people will continue to live in extreme poverty , more than half of them women SDGs should be placed on track Global gap analysis important Lakshmi M Puri Anna-Katharina Hornidge Sanusha Naidu Sabyasachi SAHA, Ph.D. সব্যসাচী NITI Aayog RIS

India is blessed with many amazing parks, but few can be better than Cubbon park, in Bengaluru, first thing in the morning!

The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2024 is now open via Royal Commonwealth Society.

Entrants are asked to consider how community and culture can encourage resilience and hope.

Enter here👇
royalcwsociety.org/essay-competit…

A fantastic appointment to a crucial role.

“I have only grown with years more firmly fixed in the belief that there is nothing more fatuous in international affairs than to believe in the unquestioned superiority of one’s own people and the inferiority of others” (1935)

Esme Howard, UK Ambassador to the US 1924-30.

“India: a young, vibrant tech savvy nation feels that its time has come”.

Spot on from ⁦Mike atherton⁩

thetimes.co.uk/article/254810…

🇮🇳 leadership forging global partnerships!

PR Arindam Bagchi & UNDRR hosted an interactive evening with Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure DG Amit Prothi’s briefing on the Coalition’s work to strengthen infrastructure resilience for #DisasterRiskReduction & build adaptive capacities for #ClimateChange

An issue across sports and sectors, and across the world.

When we move past 'where are the women' we then need to ensure spaces are safe and inclusive for all to participate.

Just finished this, quite excellent piece of work by Manu Bhagavan

A masterpiece that combines biography, history, and mystery - why the first woman to do just about everything in her field, feted at home and abroad, was in the end all but written out of the story …

CDRI delegation led by DG Amit Prothi met UN GA President in New Delhi yesterday and extended the Coalition's support in integrating disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation and resilience agendas in the UNGA processes.

#DRR #resilientinfrastructure #DRI