Washington, DC, July 19, 2021 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or IBRD) priced a catastrophe bond that will provide the Government of Jamaica with financial...
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Washington, DC, July 19, 2021 – The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or IBRD) priced a catastrophe bond that will provide the Government of Jamaica with financial...
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Updated based on April 2019 refugee statistics This report summarizes the main findings and recommendations of the assessment, updated to reflect the most recent (April 2019) refugee population...
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End of Fighting in Syria Not Enough for Spontaneous Return of Syrian Refugees Washington DC, February 5, 2019— A new World Bank report analyzes the voluntary return of 103,090 Syrian refugees to...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Technical Deep Dive on Seismic Risk and Resilience Every year, approximately 70,000 people die worldwide from natural disasters. Most of these deaths are caused by building collapse...
The objective of this report is to make recommendations for the Government of Saint Lucia (GoSL) for the formulation of a country-specific comprehensive disaster risk finance (DRF) strategy, based on...
STORY HIGHLIGHTS CSA technologies are diverse and can be adapted to the needs of individual countries, farms and farmers. Lack of training and knowledge is the biggest barrier to CSA adoption There...
Summary On May 2, 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta and swept across the region toward Yangon. By the time the storm had passed, it had killed over 140,000 people, tearing apart...
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In Cairo: Riham Mustafa Phone: +(202) 2461-4230 E-mail: rmustafa@ifc.org In Washington, DC: Laura MacInnis Phone: +1 (202) 473-6978 E-mail: lmacinnis@ifc.org Ramallah, West Bank and Gaza, March 14,...
Executive summary The World Bank and Asian Development Bank have worked in more than 50 countries to (i) quantify the economic and fiscal impact of disasters; (ii) take stock of existing mechanisms...
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Executive Summary The South West Indian Ocean (SWIO) Island States are highly exposed to adverse natural events. On average, 13 tropical cyclones with wind speeds exceeding 63 km/h form in the SWIO...
In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked Haiti, Pakistan, and Nepal; floods have swept through Pakistan and Mozambique; droughts have hit Ethiopia,...
El Día Internacional de la Mujer es una ocasión propicia para reflexionar sobre cuánto ha avanzado América Latina y el Caribe hacia la igualdad de género y cuánto le falta a la región para alcanzar...
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Key Recommendations for Cost-Effective and Sustainable Disaster Risk Finance Solutions in the Pacific Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face many common challenges in their efforts to utilize disaster...
Executive Summary This report aims to build understanding of the existing disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI) tools in use in the Solomon Islands and to identify gaps where engagement could...
Executive Summary The likelihood that a hazardous event will have a significant impact on the Marshall Islands has risen with the increasing levels of population and assets in the urban areas of...
Executive Summary Tonga is an archipelago composed of 172 islands spread across a combined land and sea area of 720,000km. According to the 2011 census, Tonga had a population of 103,252 people...
Executive Summary In 2012 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Evan offered a distressing reminder of Samoa’s exposure to natural hazards. TC Evan came only three years after the earthquake and tsunami of 2009,...
Executive Summary The Cook Islands is composed of 15 islands, spread across nearly 2 million km2 of territorial waters. The geographic spread of the Cook Islands poses logistical problems for any...
Executive Summary Vanuatu is susceptible to a variety of both hydrometeorological and geophysical disasters due to its location in the South Pacific tropical cyclone basin and the Pacific Ring of...
Executive Summary This note aims to build understanding of the existing disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI) tools in use in Fiji and to identify gaps where potential engagement could further...