From disaster response to prevention: companion paper to the disaster risk management policy

This paper underscores the need for reducing vulnerability in Latin American and the Caribbean and establishes the merits of a shift to proactive disaster risk management embodied in a new policy.
The aim of the Policy on Disaster Risk Management favorably reviewed by the Board of Execution Directors of the IDB on February 28, 2007 is to provide clear directives for the Bank to ensure that its assistance supports proactive disaster risk management. It represents the Bank’s continued commitment to protect and help generate economic and social development in the region.