The President’s statement that the current Disaster Management Act is flawed may have been a feint to divert attention away ...

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 ...

Florida Kunyambo, a widowed mother in Nsusa Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kapeni in Blantyre, shares a fragile ...

It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the ...

International pre-arranged financing (PAF) for disasters reached a record US$9.4 billion in 2024, marking a significant ...

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 ...

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 ...