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Globally, river floods affect more than 21 million people. By 2030, due to climate change, population growth, and rapid urbanization, this number could rise to 54 million.

The World Bank recently committed that lending operations should incorporate resilience to disasters, but that doesn't mean that project leaders suddenly need to become experts in natural hazards...

There remain challenges and barriers to entry for women in mapping and tech, many of which are cultural. However, a panel at the first State of the Map Africa conference provided some practical solutions to tackling some of the challenges.

Between 2005 and 2014, due to natural disasters, the Central America region had a nominal cumulative loss of around US$5.8 billion, and witnessed more than 3,410 deaths and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

Development professionals often complain about the absence of good-quality data in disaster-prone areas. Technological progress, however, is quickly creating new ways for governments and development agencies to overcome data scarcity.

If governments could apply triage to substandard housing, medical triage would be a much less frequent occurrence – because in the developing world, it is mainly housing that kills people, not disasters. Resilient cities require resilient housing. 

Part 2 of a 3-part series on Bangladesh's progress in Coastal Resilience.

Protecting the poor against natural hazards is a moral, economic, and social imperative. The poor can lose everything to disaster, and not just money.