When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

In disaster-prone central Vietnam, community-based disaster risk management puts local villages and communities at the center of preparedness efforts. The Government of Vietnam is spending $18.5 ...

The Albay Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) on Tuesday ordered the preemptive evacuation of ...

Ecuador has taken important steps to increase its resilience to disasters, climate change, and macroeconomic shocks through the World Bank-financed Ecuador Risk Mitigation and Emergency Recovery ...

Under its ‘Rebuild Together’ initiative, a national effort launched following Cyclone Ditwah to aid recovery and reduce ...

Declares 10 districts highly vulnerable to floods, two to landslides and one each to snowfall and glacial lake outburst floods.

ISWA manual shows that disasters and conflicts in West Asia generate vast amounts of hazardous and mixed waste that, if poorly managed, quickly become a second crisis threatening health, the ...

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 ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has unveiled the provincial Disaster Management Plan 2026-30, declaring 10 districts highly vulnerable to floods, two to landslides and one each to snowfall ...