It has been twenty-five years since the Super Cyclone ravaged Odisha. Around 18 million people were affected, more than 10,000 precious lives were lost, and the economy was devastated. The event, ...

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 ...

A NEW digital tool that consolidates environmental, demographic, and hazard data for local planning has been introduced ...

Cyclone Ditwah has passed. But the damage it has caused is irreversible. With over 400 recorded deaths and more people still ...

More than 100 million people in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States have been affected by disasters since 2000. Disaster risk financing and insurance can help ASEAN Member ...

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 ...

World Heritage properties and heritage sites in general are exposed to the impacts of natural and man-triggered catastrophic events, which threaten their integrity and may compromise their value. The ...

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 ...

THE Commission on Audit (COA) has found that the Talisay City Government charged several ineligible expenditures to its Local ...