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Disaster Risk Management

Disasters hurt the poor and vulnerable the most. Over the past decade, the World Bank has emerged as the global leader in disaster risk management, supporting client countries to assess exposure to hazards and address disaster risks.

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Disasters hurt the poor and vulnerable the most. Over the past decade, the World Bank has emerged as the global leader in disaster risk management, supporting countries to assess exposure to hazards and address disaster risks.

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Students in Tonga are significantly impacted by natural disasters that results in an estimated 100,000 school days lost in To

The program helps to enhance the safety and resilience of selected education facilities; and to improve the quality of data-driven education management.

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The Canada-Caribbean Resilience Facility (CRF) works to achieve more effective and coordinated gender-informed climate-...
The City Resilience Program (CRP) works to build resilient cities with the capacity to plan for and mitigate adverse impacts of ...
Men and women, boys and girls have different experiences of disasters. Gender dynamics impact both the way they are affected by ...
Empowering citizens and communities, particularly those most excluded, and supporting community participation can result in ...
World Bank Tokyo Disaster Risk ...

The Japan-World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries is a program established by the ...
Accurate disaster risk analytics information is crucial to reducing the impacts of disasters and guiding climate adaptation ...

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HOUSING AND HEALTHCARE VIDEO

Every year, 25 million people are displaced globally by sudden onset disasters, which cause over $18 billion of direct damages in low- and middle-income countries. Addressing this challenge, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is working with countries and communities to not just build back better, but build better before.

In Indonesia, which has one of the largest home improvement programs in the world, GFDRR helped raise compliance with resilient housing standards from 11% in 2018 to over 75% in 2023. Meanwhile, in partnership with the Japan Program, GFDRR is working to enhance the resilience of health systems to various shocks in countries including Colombia, Morocco, and Peru.

Seismic-resilient schools built with GFDRR support in T��rkiye withstood the worst of the shocks brought about by the February 2023 earthquakes. They have become temporary shelters providing earthquake survivors a safe space and operations centers for the coordination and distribution of aid.

With the support of GFDRR, the World Bank and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, countries across the Pacific are taking steps to ensure that disability inclusion is front and center in their disaster risk management efforts.

Practical actions to advance social inclusion in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) projects. The actions identified are means to proactively expand their resilience impacts to a wider group of beneficiaries who tend to be excluded. (e.g. the elderly, persons with disabilities, women, children, ethnic/religious minorities, etc.).