One of the main recommendations of the iGOPP Chile 2020, carried out by Itrend in conjunction with the IDB, points to the need for a national strategy for disaster risk financial management, which would allow progress in strengthening governance in this area, as well as in financial protection and fiscal resilience tools. In order to make the construction of such a strategy possible, it was necessary to have an enabling instrument to characterize public spending on Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management. Itrend addressed this challenge with the collaboration of the ministries and services that make up its Council of Public Organizations, preparing the first Report on the Characterization of Public Expenditure for Comprehensive Disaster Management. The study was launched in November of this year, and details the resources that the State of Chile allocates to disaster risk management and how it distributes them, as well as providing recommendations for improvement. Review the report here.

We kicked off 2023 with the first version of the Resilient Chile event: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to address the challenges of Climate Change. The meeting organized by Itrend was held on January 12 at ICARE and brought together renowned specialists from the country and the world in Artificial Intelligence and climate change, as well as technology entrepreneurs and representatives of companies in these areas. Among the speakers were Maricarmen Esquivel, in charge of overseeing climate finance for the operations of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Peter Clutton-Brock, co-founder of the UK's Center for Artificial Intelligence and Climate. See video summary. 

In October, the second version of this seminar, Resilient Chile: Technologies to anticipate forest fires. The outstanding speakers, José Torero and Ellen Rahtje, from the University College of London and the Design Safe platform respectively, were the main speakers at this seminar, which also included two conversation panels, made up of representatives from academia, local governments and civil society. The objective of the meeting, which was attended by more than a hundred guests, was to discuss the importance of the use of technology to anticipate forest fires and avoid their negative consequences. See video summary.