Risk-informed planning, governance, and tailored finance are essential for disaster risk reduction and local resilience in the face of climate risks. Comprehensive risk management approaches promoting policy coherence between DRR and climate action across sectors and levels of government and fostering collaboration among government institutions, non-state actors, and other stakeholders can help to avert, minimize and address loss and damage, and enhance resilience and sustainability.  In addition, one of the foundations of risk-informed sustainable development is an evidence-based approach to policy and investment decisions. Disaster losses and damages data collection and use is an essential basis for understanding the risks and impacts of disasters and ensuring risk-informed policies and financial decisions. This is strongly emphasized in the Sendai Framework, which advocates for collection, analysis, management and use of relevant data and practical risk information, along with its effective dissemination. Specifically, Guiding Principle (g) highlights the importance of risk-informed decision-making based on the open exchange and dissemination of data and easily accessible, up-to-date, comprehensible, science-based, non-sensitive risk information. This online workshop will introduce key concepts, frameworks, approaches and tools developed by the United Nations and its partners to support governments and strengthen institutional capacity to respond to these challenges. Specific tools presented in this workshop will include the Climate Resilience Addendum to the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities under MCR2030, which allows users to self-assess the integration of disaster and climate resilience strategies at the sub-national government level.  The Climate Readiness Assessment Tool will be also featured, supporting governments in evaluating institutional capacities, policy coherence, and inter-agency coordination for integrated climate action. In addition, the Disaster Tracking System (DTS) for hazardous events and losses and damages will be introduced along with related methodologies, standards and frameworks to help countries monitor their progress in reducing disaster losses and damages and inform policy and investment decisions.  The workshop will also explore recent progress made in establishing global mechanisms and capacity building and finance support instruments to help developing countries in averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage caused by climate change. The sessions will provide an overview of the Santiago network for averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage established under the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage in 2019,  which aims to catalyze technical assistance from various organizations, bodies, networks, and experts (OBNEs) to developing countries; and of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage, established at COP27,  which aims to provide financial assistance to nations most vulnerable and impacted by climate change.