Blogs

Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director of the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice, sits down with Dr. Shazia Siddiqi, Executive Director of Deaf Abused Women’s Network (DAWN) for a conversation on the disability dimension of inclusion and how we should conceive and design cities that are truly inclusive of all, including persons with disabilities.

While land size, borders, and coordinates are essential to providing secure land and property rights, we must remember that humans use and access land in three dimensions – whether through mineral or water rights beneath the surface or the addition of levels to a home or other property above the ground.

This fast-developing technology is great for disaster resilience in remote locations, such as the Pacific, and UAVs are currently being field tested in Fiji and Tonga.

The Roadmap for Safer Schools is a guide to design and implement systematic actions to improve the safety and resilience of school infrastructure at risk from natural hazards.

A new report on lays out a new, tailored approach to increasing disaster resilience in small island developing states. What makes resilient transport especially critical for SIDS are the large recovery costs, the dependency on infrastructure for which there is no redundancy, and the major role transport systems play in their economies.

What can be done to ensure that resilience becomes part of the definition of "decent, affordable housing for all" in cities? That a safe home means one that can withstand extreme weather and other natural disasters?

The World Bank, with support of GFDRR, organized a knowledge exchange workshop on seismic resilience and underground metro structures that brought together Japanese experts and representatives from Ecuador and Peru, two countries that are currently building their first underground metro lines.

The West Africa Coastal Areas management program (WACA) can support West African countries to strengthen the resilience of coastal communities to climate and other hazards. 

As Turkey accommodates more students into its schools, it also strives to provide safe and inclusive learning environments.

How do you prepare megacities with population of up to 15 million people for seismic events?