Disaster Risk Management - World Bank Group
WEBApr 29, 2024 — Disasters hurt the poor and vulnerable the most. More than one-third of the world’s poor live in multi-hazard zones, and low-income countries account for more than 70 percent of the world’s disaster “hotspots.” Mainstreaming disaster risk management into development planning can help lower the impact of disasters on property and lives.
Strengthening Disaster Risk Management and Transport …
WEBOct 12, 2021 — The disaster revealed important shortcomings in Haiti's overall national disaster risk management system. After the January 2010 earthquake, reducing vulnerability, improving emergency preparedness and response capacity, and understanding risks became key themes for Haiti’s government and the international …
Strengthening Ecuador’s resilience and responsiveness to disasters …
WEBJun 27, 2022 — It also provided TA to the National Service for Disaster Risk and Emergency Management (SNGRE) to strengthen risk reduction, emergency response, and post-disaster reconstruction and recovery. The project directly benefited a total of 2,348,372 people (51 percent of whom were female) through the investments and activities …
Learning from Megadisasters: A Decade of Lessons from the Great …
WEBMar 11, 2021 — Introduction: The Triple Disaster, Response and Recovery. On March 11th, 2011 a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, near the Tohoku region. The force of the earthquake sent a tsunami rushing towards the Tohoku coastline, a black wall of water which wiped away entire towns and villages.
Sharing Japanese Expertise in Emergency Preparedness and …
WEBOct 12, 2017 — Participants visited (i) the Yokohama Disaster Risk Reduction Learning Center, which acts as an emergency response center for disasters in the Yokohama Station area, improving citizens’ disaster risk reduction knowledge and storing emergency supplies and materials, and (ii) the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park which acts as a central ...
Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in Romania: Building …
WEBSep 13, 2023 — Under the Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in Romania, the World Bank is providing financial support to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the amount of 142 million Euro to retrofit or reconstruct 35 fire stations identified as paramount to the country’s disaster response and preparedness system, and to strengthen institutional ...
Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in Costa Rica - World …
WEBApr 23, 2019 — Sepecue, Costa Rica. Costa Rica has significantly strengthened its institutional and legal framework for disaster risk management (DRM) and has further anchored and mainstreamed DRM into National Development and Investment Programs. The country has strategically used a World Bank contingency loan to buffer the social …
Supporting Morocco’s Journey to Disaster and Climate Resilience
WEBAug 11, 2022 — The Morocco Integrated Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Program has helped strengthen Morocco’s disaster and climate resilience by promoting the development of a national Disaster Risk Management (DRM) strategy, supporting structural risk reduction investments for more than 174,000 beneficiaries, ensuring close to 9 …
Vietnam: Disaster Risk Management Project - World Bank Group
WEBApr 9, 2013 — Results. • The success of the World Bank pilot on Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) which had been implemented in 12 project provinces led the Vietnam government to develop a National CBDRM Program of US$450 million covering 6,000 communes across the country. • 11 major flood and storm mitigation …
Gender Dynamics of Disaster Risk and Resilience - World Bank …
WEBIn the overlay (maroon area) between gender inequality and disaster impacts are the factors that drive disaster impacts and are influenced by gender dynamics. This is where gender differentiated impacts happen. Gender-differentiated impacts of disasters can exacerbate gender inequality, which in turn can worsen resilience to future disasters.