When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

In disaster-prone central Vietnam, community-based disaster risk management puts local villages and communities at the center of preparedness efforts. The Government of Vietnam is spending $18.5 ...

Ecuador has taken important steps to increase its resilience to disasters, climate change, and macroeconomic shocks through the World Bank-financed Ecuador Risk Mitigation and Emergency Recovery ...

Declares 10 districts highly vulnerable to floods, two to landslides and one each to snowfall and glacial lake outburst floods.

Under its ‘Rebuild Together’ initiative, a national effort launched following Cyclone Ditwah to aid recovery and reduce ...

Building on the progress achieved through previous Bank-financed projects, the Second Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO II) project ...

Assuming a unified vision of what a resilient Jamaica will look like can be reached, having set goals and targets and ...