WASHINGTON DC, July 10, 2017 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$50 million from the International Development Association for the Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Against...
Date: July 10, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2017 – Lao PDR is taking steps to lessen the impact of natural disasters and will continue to improve the country’s national water resources management systems, in partnership...
Date: July 7, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Afghanistan is highly prone to intense and recurring natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, and droughts due to its geographical location and years of environmental degradation,...
Date: July 6, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
More than 800 participants from civil society, national and local governments, academia, the private sector and international organizations from around the world gathered in Brussels from 6-8 June 2017...
Date: June 27, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
On May 8 – 12, 2017, the World Bank Resilient Transport Community of Practice (CoP), Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and the World Bank Disaster Risk Management Hub in Tokyo...
Date: June 26, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The World Bank’s Building Regulation for Resilience Program, with support from the Disaster Risk Management Hub, Tokyo, will launch a report that describes how Japan has transformed its built environment...
Date: June 13, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Malaka Rodrigo watched with relief as the flood waters receded from his home in Matara in southern Sri Lanka. “This area doesn’t usually flood,” he said ruefully. Typically, the bunds keep the waters of...
Date: June 5, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Recognizing that disaster risk management (DRM) plays a pivotal role in the country’s sustainable development, the Government of Armenia was one of the first countries in the region, to initiate...
Date: May 24, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
BRAZZAVILLE, May 3, 2017 – “While the World Bank is certainly best known as a donor institution, it is also a knowledge-sharing institution, and I am inclined to believe that we should be known more as...
Date: May 3, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Located on the vulnerable Northern Anatolian Fault, Turkey’s financial capital city, Istanbul, is highly exposed to seismic activity. In a city home to approximately 15 million people with dense commercial,...
Date: April 4, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Today we celebrate World Water Day around the world. In Marseille, young people are coming together to promote innovative projects by entrepreneurs for recycling water in households, agriculture,...
Date: March 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
March 21, 2017 - Tabonibara, Kiribati –Straddling the equator in the middle of the Central Pacific Ocean, Kiribati is made up of 33 coral atolls spread across 3.5 million km² (1.3 square miles) of ocean....
Date: March 21, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2017 – The World Bank Board today approved the US$ 175 million National Hydrology Project which will strengthen the capacity of institutions to assess the water situation in...
Date: March 15, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
ANKARA, January 30, 2017 – The World Bank, together with the Ministry of National Education of Turkey, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, the European Union, and KfW, has launched the "School...
Date: January 30, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Floods pose serious risks to cities around the world—and challenges to officials who aim to reduce those risks. Urban flooding is becoming increasingly costly and difficult to manage, as low- and middle-income...
Date: January 24, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Through decades managing large-scale natural hazards, Japan has developed and refined its disaster risk management (DRM) approach many times over. The country continuously assesses and tests the capacity...
Date: January 17, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
EDOH-WOWUIKOKPE, December 20, 2016 – In the heart of the Afagnan district, in southern Togo, is the village of Edoh-Wowuikopé, whose population is estimated at 450 inhabitants, almost all of which...
Date: December 20, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, December 14, 2016 – 50 years ago, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake devastated Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital and currently the most populated city in Central Asia. Today, with more than...
Date: December 14, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Human and economic costs of disasters underestimated by up to 60 percent MARRAKESH, November 14, 2016– The impact of extreme natural disasters is equivalent to a global $520 billion loss in annual consumption,...
Date: November 14, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In 2013, an estimated one million Filipinos were plunged into poverty after Typhoon Haiyan sapped $12.9 billion from the national economy and destroyed over a million homes. No sooner had the 2010 Cyclone...
Date: November 14, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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