This DRM Country Note updates the April 2009 version. The Note was prepared following consultations with members of the World Bank’s Haiti DRM Country team and the task team leaders overseeing...
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Abstract This brief includes the following headings: international experience; key issues; lessons learned; recommendations; and case studies of World Bank financed projects.
Executive Summary It is only a matter of a few years before the next major earthquake strikes East Asia and the Pacific. It is only a few decades, at most, before a major earthquake occurs near a...
Japan hosted the 8th meeting of the Consultative Group (CG) of donors of the World Bank-managed Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) in Kyoto from May 16-19, 2010. The CG...
The devastating Haiti Earthquake of January 2010 created major challenges on a variety of fronts. To support the Government of Haiti's decision-making on the recovery and reconstruction operations,...
Executive Summary Background and Scope Universalia is pleased to present this report on the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), one of the more recent donor-supported...
February 24, 2010. These resources will be mainstreamed into the Road Sector Project (US$7.8 million) and the Lao Upland Food Security Improvement Project (US$5.2 million). The Government's Poverty...
Summary World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) are working with ImageCat and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to produce high precision aerial...
Executive Summary In January 2009, the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters highlighted a spike in the number of people killed in natural disasters: the 2008 death toll of 235,816 was...
At 6:48am on the 29 September 2009, a powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake close to the main Samoan Island chain with its epicenter 190 km south of the Samoan capital of Apia. This was followed only 10...
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Foreword At its 5th meeting in copenhagen in november 2008, the GFDrr consultative Group asked the secretariat to focus on a select group of priority countries to achieve increased impact. in GFDrr’s...
Executive Summary a. Context and first responses The Ketsana Typhoon entered the southern part of the Lao PDR on September 29, 2009, causing extensive damages to people's propriety, social and...
Prepared by the Government of El Salvador with the support of the international community SUMMARY AND CONCUSIONS Through t he use of the damage and loss assessment methodology developed by the...
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Press Release No:2010/135/SDN ROME, November 11, 2009 - The World Bank and the Italian Civil Protection Department (CPD) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to join efforts towards...