LARA LOUSSERT, KARIMA BEN BIH, VLADIMIR TSIRKUNOV, ANNA-MARIA BOGDANOVA In March 2022, the United Nations launched the "Early Warning for All" initiative, targeting global access to Early Warning...
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LARA LOUSSERT, KARIMA BEN BIH, VLADIMIR TSIRKUNOV, ANNA-MARIA BOGDANOVA In March 2022, the United Nations launched the "Early Warning for All" initiative, targeting global access to Early Warning...
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More than ever, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is experiencing increasingly frequent and severe hydrological and meteorological (hydromet) hazards such as floods, droughts, heat...
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the World Bank, with support from GFDRR, has been conducting crosssectoral assessments of the war’s impacts supported by baseline data collection,...
Droughts, extreme temperatures, and floods are just some of the natural hazards facing Jordan and its over 11 million citizens. Climate change has raised the specter that such hazards will become...
Across the development community, there is growing awareness about the reality that, in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), the path to a resilient future is even more...
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The Importance of Inclusion in Disaster Risk Management Disasters can affect everyone, but their impacts can disproportionately affect certain groups, including individuals with disabilities. These...
In recent decades, the small island developing state of St. Lucia has made significant strides in its development, due in no small part to major investments in its national infrastructure. Yet today,...
Colombia’s vulnerability to disasters and climate-related shocks presents a formidable challenge to its efforts to provide safe and resilient housing. Even as it has achieved significant progress in...
Few investments are as critical for population health, people’s livelihoods, and effective emergency response as those that make health systems resilient. According to the overwhelming consensus of...
In February 2023, Türkiye was hit by two very large magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes, followed by thousands of aftershocks and then another large, magnitude 6.7, earthquake. The earthquakes...
Determined to protect lives and livelihoods in a country prone to disasters such as earthquakes and floods, Romania has been making tremendous headway in strengthening its emergency preparedness and...
Bamako is one of the world’s fastest growing cities. Its population has more than doubled since 2000, and this rapid increase is expected to continue in the coming decades. Critically, 63 percent of...
In early 2023, Mozambique was battered by a single tropical cyclone not just once, but twice. Likely breaking the record for the longest-lasting tropical cyclone, Tropical Cyclone Freddy hit...
Chad’s capital and largest city, N’Djamena, is highly vulnerable to a range of natural hazards that range from pluvial and riverine flooding to wind erosion and desertification. These vulnerabilities...
Executive Summary Following the Herat province (Western Afghanistan) earthquake sequence of October 7 to 15, 2023, the World Bank carried out a remote desk-based assessment of the physical damages...
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How can we do better? Improving climate and disaster resilience in complex settings JEMMA VASILYAN & KARIMA BEN BIH Globally, the number of countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence...
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I. Background Geographical Context The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) of the Caribbean, a group of islands and territories under the jurisdiction of France, the Netherlands, or the United...
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This country disaster risk profile is an estimation of the potential economic losses to property caused by adverse natural hazards. This brief focuses on hurricanes and earthquakes risk profile of...
GFDRR releases an open data standard to make it easier to publish, access, share, and use quality disaster and climate risk data. This article first appeared on the Data Blog of the World The Global...
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The frequency and intensity of disasters, which are caused by natural hazards and are worsening with climate change, pose significant dangers to global economic prosperity, human security, and...