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This article presents 10 countries researchers have identified as most at risk of climate disaster. The IRC and WRI analyzed where climate crises are likely to occur and whether affected countries have the capacity to respond in vulnerable communities.
International Rescue Committee
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when constraints were at their highest, Cabo Verde was able to access immediate liquidity through the Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Financing with Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) Project.
World Bank, the
Games for DRR
Game simulations as a tool are increasingly being used to train pilots, operators, defense strategists, and many other professions that demand complex decision-making.
World Bank, the

This booklet highlights stories of impact from GFDRR’s engagements in International Development Association (IDA) countries. As IDA countries strive to not only build back better in the aftermath of COVID-19, but also sustain and even accelerate the

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This paper sets out to establish a roadmap for disaster risk management planning for coastal cities based on the UNDRR ten essentials.
Early warning systems, contingency planning and local action can strengthen West Africa’s responses to increasingly frequent severe flooding.
African Development Bank

Parliamentarians from Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Togo, Kenya and Senegal, met at the Consultative Meeting for West African Parliamentarians on Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving Millennium Development Goals by

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In this qualitative research, the author carries out a historical review and compilation of information related to disaster events that occurred between 1900 and 2018 in a Sahelian archipelago country, Cabo Verde.

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