Objectives

IKRI expects to stimulate collaborations between disaster management authorities, developers and providers, and Indigenous communities for promoting nature-based solutions in DRR.

1. Introduce the IKRI Global Research Initiative and Knowledge Repository concept to DRR community
2. Understand interests and the requirement of DRR stakeholders
3. Stimulate collaborations between disaster management authorities, and the Indigenous communities for promoting nature-based solutions in DRR
4. Examine policy and regulatory aspects of IKRI focusing on intellectual property rights related to indigenous knowledge
5. Build global support network for design, development, and implementation of IKRI

Need

While the Indigenous knowledge-IK is vital for DRR covering land, oceans, ecosystems, and societal transitions, there are challenges and barriers for Indigenous communities to implement workable and replicable solutions in pursuit of building disaster and climate resilience.  

1. IK is widely scattered, at times, exists in small pockets; much of the IK is transferred through practices and not well-documents.  
2. There is an urgent need of capturing, preserving, and nurturing the DRR system-specific components of IK  
3. Need to derive simplified knowledge products that are outcome of research to create baselines and targets for Indigenous communities.  
4. Need to strengthen technical capacity of indigenous communities to consolidate existing knowledge that may be useful to assess disaster risks, vulnerabilities, and exposure to all hazards. 
5. Need to empower Indigenous youths to use integrated technologies driven DRR solutions to address the challenges with accelerated technological inequalities amongst the Indigenous Peoples

Scope (Guiding Questions)

1. What are the challenges for integrating Indigenous knowledge with emerging technology-based solutions for implementation of Sendai Framework? 
2. What are the requirements of key stakeholders those interested in indigenous knowledge related to SFDRR, and how these can be incorporated into IKRI? 
3. How to tap into existing scattered data from the public/private domain for IKRI? 
4. How to develop and test IKRI prototype to make a robust infrastructure to support SFDRR?