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
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
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
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
Regional Context The Europe and Central Asia region experiences a variety of natural hazards, including floods, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and wildfires. Such shocks not only trap communities...
Date: January 23, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Soaring global temperatures and runaway urbanization are among the key factors making natural disasters more intense, more frequent, and more devastating by the day. The costs are enormous. Every year,...
Date: January 17, 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
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
Tokyo, Japan, November 2, 2016 – The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 caused widespread loss of life and destruction in and around the city of Kobe. Almost 4,000 schools were destroyed. It was a...
Date: November 2, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
How natural disasters are paid for makes a big difference to the total economic cost. Ministries of finance receive countless financial protection proposals from reinsurers and banks, but often lack the...
Date: September 27, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region are regularly affected by adverse natural events. Over the last 30 years, floods and earthquakes alone caused 50,000 fatalities, affected nearly 25...
Date: September 26, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, August 25, 2016 — The World Bank Group today issued the following statement from World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on the earthquake in Italy on Wednesday, August 24, 2016: “The World...
Date: August 25, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
An archipelago spanning more than 7,000 islands, the Philippines is among the countries with the greatest exposure to natural disaster risk worldwide. Earthquakes, typhoons, flooding, volcanic eruptions,...
Date: June 27, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The Inaugural Regional Forum Promotes Action on Disaster Resilience ALMATY, October 27, 2015 – The inaugural Central Asia Earthquake Risk Reduction Forum will take place on October 27-28 in Almaty,...
Date: October 27, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 27th was for many an unexpected event. However, for the disaster risk management community in development and humanitarian institutions, this earthquake...
Date: October 27, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON D.C., June 29, 2015—The World Bank today approved two credits totaling $300 million to rebuild houses in poor, rural areas of Nepal and to provide an injection of cash for the government’s budget...
Date: June 29, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
KATHMANDU, June 23, 2015—The World Bank Group today said it would provide up to half-a-billion dollars to finance the reconstruction of Nepal after devastating earthquakes in April and May killed almost...
Date: June 23, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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