The World Bank Group works with the government of India on implementation of its National Disaster Management Plan, with assessing risks and incorporating disaster risk information into development ...

New World Bank report shows how gender inequalities drive disaster impacts and vice versa. The report is a tool for those seeking to improve policies and interventions by considering gender as part of ...

Climate change and environmental degradation are worsening the impacts of disasters on vulnerable people – making it vital that environmental and humanitarian organizations work more closely together, ...

This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 13 October 2022, focused on the objective to “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard ...

Natural and man-made disasters have significant social, economic, and environmental impact. In 2015, the United Nations formally recognised, through the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction ...

Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...

We’re launching the first Disaster Risk and Age Index at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, 14-18 March. The Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster ...

Panama has instituted critical reforms to improve its technical and institutional capacity to manage the disaster risk resulting from natural and health-related hazards. The reforms allowed for a ...

The National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) is evolving from a facilitating and funding entity to a catalytic fund leading on disaster risk reduction measures and climate resilience paradigm in ...

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the ...