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Risk-informed development: Why it matters

This publication covers adopting a risk-informed development (RID) perspective as crucial to safeguard development gains, foster resilience, and leave no one behind.
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Georgia seismic risk profile

This seismic risk profile of Georgia, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.
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Incorporating climate resilience in urban planning and policy making: Focus on Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan

This report provides high-level climate risk assessments for cities in Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan. It is designed to mainstream mitigation and adaptation into urban planning to help ensure climate resilient growth.
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Application of the PEIVC protocol in Georgia: Risk-informed decision-making processes

The main focus of the project was a desktop-based vulnerability assessment of road segments in a region of the Republic of Georgia particularly prone to the impacts of severe weather, especially in the form of landslide related events.
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Channelling a safer future: How Georgia is engineering a climate-resilient future, safe from floods

In the wake of the devastating floods that struck Tbilisi in 2015, Georgia is taking crucial steps to lay the foundations for a safer, climate-resilient future.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Social protection in a world of crisis: Learning from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus

This paper explores the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to learn lessons on how to build the resilience of their social protection system.
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Georgia: Voluntary National Report of the MTR SF

Georgia's Voluntary National Report for the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (MTR SF).
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Narrowing the disaster risk protection gap in Central Asia

This publication examines risks from flooding and earthquakes in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. It assesses the protection gap and identifies ways of strengthening financing.

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