In 2025–26, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) continued to strengthen community-based disaster risk reduction and climate resilience across South Asia, with a strong focus on extreme heat adaptation, local innovation, and inclusive policy action. Through policy support, capacity-building programmes, pilot initiatives, and knowledge co-creation, AIDMI worked with small businesses, small workers, women leaders, frontline institutions, and affected people to support practical and locally grounded resilience measures. Its initiatives linked field-level experiences with decision-making processes, promoted nature-based solutions, strengthened local capacities, and contributed to national and global discussions on disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and humanitarian action.