The World Bank Group, GFDRR recently launched a report titled “Understanding Risk in An Evolving World: Emerging Best Practices in Natural Disaster Risk Assessment” and a Policy Note titled ...

“When disaster strikes, confusion and indecision often take place when we React instead of Proact” We need to ask what my agency’s capabilities are during the first 100 hours of a disaster. Regulatory ...

Recognizing its vulnerability to natural hazards, El Salvador has strengthened its policy and institutional framework for disaster risk management by including disaster risk reduction among its policy ...

Building on the progress achieved through previous Bank-financed projects, the Second Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO II) project ...

TACLOBAN CITY (PIA) — Local government officials, disaster response agencies, community leaders, and civil society organizations gathered Wednesday as the University of the Philippines Tacloban ...

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro (PIA) — The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has convened the members of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Council and local DRRM officers in ...

Wayne County tops the list of Michigan counties most vulnerable to natural disaster and is No. 26 among the 3,142 counties in the country, according to a new National Risk Index released by the ...