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A soon-to-be-released GFDRR report, Building Regulation for Resilience: Managing Risks for Safer Cities, offers a blueprint for how developing countries can strengthen their regulations and reduce both loss of life and property when disaster strikes.
As the skies open up with heavy rain and the water rises dangerously behind the Nangbeto hydropower dam in rural Togo, local authorities face a tough decision...
The World Bank approved an International Development Association (IDA) grant of $10 million to support Sierra Leone in its efforts to recover from severe landslides and floods in Freetown in August 2017. The Freetown Emergency Recovery Project is informed by a GFDRR-supported Damage and Loss Assessment.
Leaders are coming together to discuss how vulnerable countries can better prepare and protect hard won development gains by establishing recovery strategies and processes before disaster strikes.
Efforts to rebuild following a series of massive earthquakes that struck Nepal one year ago.
Making cities accessible and inclusive for all people, including persons with disabilities, is an essential component of the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the recent Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador on October 17-20.
All citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic will potentially benefit from a Project that will ensure risk reduction investment in educational infrastructure, a stronger capacity to respond to disasters, and a better environment to scale-up the country’s mandatory disaster insurance program.
With billions coming in to rebuild communities ravaged by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) a year ago, the Aquino administration wants to assure the public that the money is really going to reconstruction and rehabilitation projects.
The global community is badly prepared for a rapid increase in climate change-related natural disasters that by 2050 will put 1.3 billion people at risk.
One thing is clear today: Resilience is here to stay. Over the past couple of years, the global community has rallied around the importance of building resilience.