Ecosystems play a pivotal role as a frontline defense against hazards, acting as a shield to prevent disasters and mitigate their impacts on communities, critical infrastructure, and essential ...
The Department of Community Governments’ Directorate of Disaster and Emergency (BDDE), in partnership with Plan International, successfully concluded a one-week Community-Based Disaster Risk ...
Flood insurance is a safety net people hope never to need. But the net is full of holes, and hope is unreliable. When payments do come, they’re often too little and too late, especially for renters ...
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 ...
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): The Central government has approved Rs 507.37 crore for a national project for strengthening community-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) initiatives in ...
A new report by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) presents a tool for conducting an initial broad-based assessment of the resilience of a country’s health system to ...
The LAC Region is exposed to a wide variety of natural hazards. Over the last decade, LAC countries, in partnership with the World Bank and other development organizations, have gradually shifted the ...