India Grown, Thrived In Many Domains: Biden Administration Hails New Delhi’s Leadership

Biden administration official has said that India has grown and thrived in so many domains with all hands-on deck. Also, the officials applauded New Delhi’s leadership role in proposing the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).

Biden administration hails India

While hailing India for its sustained commitment to disaster resilience around the world, US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power said that it was the country’s leadership that helped creates CDRI out of a fierce belief that disaster resilience efforts will be most successful when driven not just by governments but by everyone.

Addressing the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure’s Governing Council Meeting, Power said, “As we all know, it was the government of India’s leadership that helped creates this Coalition, out of a fierce belief that disaster resilience efforts will be most successful when driven not just by governments, but by everyone.”

With the climate crisis accelerating — as floodwaters still are submerging parts of Pakistan, drought still ravaging East Africa, snowstorms tearing through the American West and India itself bracing for devastating heat waves — it becomes clearer and clearer that no government alone can stem the tide of impending disaster, she said.

“And we need to build a movement where disaster resilience is driven by everyone – all hands on deck,” she said.

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New strategy will be launched this year

“Your new strategy, which will be launched this year, I think offers a roadmap to realise this vision. It calls for Coalition members to find and engage partners in government, multilateral organisations, private companies and communities themselves – because that is the way we will meet the needs of the most climate imperilled communities,” Power said, adding that in the past year, this Coalition has collaborated to make significant progress.

Further, she said that USAID is going to continue to engage more partners to make the fight to build community resilience a global fight.

USAID can work to bring in more US federal agencies to donate their experience in emergency management or engineering to the most climate-imperilled communities, she added.

“And I know when I was in India, this is something that our Indian counterparts are very interested in, working with other US agencies,” Power said.