Bosnia and Herzegovina

This report presents an assessment of the capacity for flood monitoring and early flood warning in 17 of the 22 countries which belong to the Eastern and Southern neighbourhood policy of the European Union and the enlargement candidate countries. Many of

The OSCE implemented a two-year project (2015-2017) “Disaster Risk Reduction and Security in the OSCE Area” in South-Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia) and Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan), which aimed to improve

The development of methods for rapid flood mapping and risk assessment is a key step to increase the usefulness of flood early warning systems and is crucial for effective emergency response and flood impact mitigation. Currently, flood early warning

This paper presents recently developed inter-agency and multi-sectoral spatial risk assessments for Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), which have proven to be effective research and communication tools with high relevance for policy makers and programme managers

A number of government institutions, international agencies, scientific organizations and non-governmental organizations in Bosnia Herzegovina are currently in the process of scaling up their DRR programming. In order to facilitate this process, UN

In the past two years alone, the magnitude of disasters increased significantly in the Western Balkans, affecting 15 times more people and causing economic losses 30 times higher than in the period from 2000 to 2013. While recovery actions financed

This map shows the relative flood risk and the exposed annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to flood risk as a ratio of the total GDP for each municipality.

The flood data is based on the flood hazard map. The exposure data was calculated using the Global