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South Asia is exposed to a variety of hazards, ranging from avalanches and earthquakes in the Himalayas to droughts and floods in the Indo-Gangetic Plain to cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and the...

Rapid processes of urbanization mean that the disaster risk profile of African countries is changing from predominantly rural, with drought and food security challenges, to predominantly urban, with...

East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) is one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions, bearing the impacts of nearly 70 percent of natural hazard events globally and affecting more than 1.6 billion...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Study This Final Report forms the third deliverable for the World Bank funded study to assess the economic costs incurred by Tajikistan, due to the impact of disasters...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS A new World Bank report assesses the economic costs of natural disasters that affect the country’s major road network. The total economic cost of disasters impacting Tajikistan’s...

Floods and Droughts: An EPIC Response to These Hazards in the Era of Climate Change “Thousands homeless as Sri Lanka floods death toll hits 17.” “Brazil on drought alert, faces worst dry spell in 91...

Executive Summary In 2020, the World Bank engaged Prepared International (PPI) to support the Western Balkan disaster risk management program by providing an assessment of current emergency...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2020, after months of unusually heavy rains across Central and NorthEastern Africa, Sudan was affected by the worst flooding in over three decades. Since the start of the...

The ready2respond (R2R) framework was developed in reference to the role of the World Bank in disaster risk reduction (DRR). While strengthening emergency preparedness and response (EP and R) is a...

FOREWORD 2020 will be remembered as a year that revealed some important truths for a young CREWS Initiative — but ones that should embolden us. COVID-19 did impact our work and timelines. It will...