In 2011, members of the Swiss NGO community, decided to work jointly on resilience, by addressing disaster risks through prevention, risk mitigation, preparedness and response. They founded the Swiss NGO DRR Platform in the spirit of capturing the existing knowledge and experience, fostering exchange and networking, increasing effectiveness and quality of Swiss NGOs work related to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), and strengthening the voices of those most at risk through advocacy and policy dialogue.