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Progress in the Development of Globally Accessible Early Warning Systems: The Gender Dimension of Disaster Risk Reduction

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 ...
Panda

Disaster management: What’s the environment got to do with it?

Climate change and environmental degradation are worsening the impacts of disasters on vulnerable people – making it vital that environmental and humanitarian organizations work more closely together, ...
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Everyday Risk: Obstacle or Opportunity for Disaster Risk Reduction?

The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...
World Bank

Resilience to disaster risk and climate change in Colombia

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 ...