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Excessive rainfall battered the Peruvian coast in early 2017, triggering serious flooding and fatal landslides. The extreme weather event has been attributed to a coastal El Niño climate pattern, which involves the unusual warming of surface water in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
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The government-to-government agreem…
Between May 14 and May 17, more rain fell in Bosnia and Herzegovina than typically falls in three months. Rivers swelled, mountains eroded, and disaster struck the country. Floods ravaged towns and inundated newly-plowed fields. Landslides destroyed roads and other vital infrastructure. People fled their homes, seeking dry land and shelter. The results…
The 43.5 million EUR European Union Floods Recovery Programme marks the first anniversary of the catastrophic floods of May 2014 by reaching a significant recovery milestone.
To date, a total of 100 public facilities damaged in the floods have been rehabilitated with funds from the European Union, which has allowed citizens in the flood-affected areas…
Sarajevo - A year ago this week, heavy rains in Bosnia and Herzegovina caused the worst floods in 120 years. While an extensive rehabilitation effort continues today, including construction of houses, infrastructure, public facilities, health care centres and schools, longer-term disaster resilience initiatives like landslide prevention programmes and n…
Washington – Following floods that devastated Malawi in January 2015, the World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$80 million to help the country reconstruct critical public infrastructure, restore agricultural livelihoods, enhance food security, and improve the Government of Malawi’s disaster response and recovery capacities.…
By Mark Kammerbauer
The 2013 European Floods submerged many riverine regions in southern and eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The Fischerdorf and Natternberg neighborhoods of the Bavarian city of Deggendorf along the Danube river were flooded after two levees within the region breached. These communities faced an additional danger in t…
The government of Seychelles has developed short, medium, and long-term disaster resilient development initiatives which are expected to benefit 87,000 people, and rehabilitate and protect 500 kilometers of roadways from disasters.
A Damage and Loss Assessment laid the foundation for the creation of Sub-Saharan Africa's first World Bank-financed disast…
Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has advised lawmakers towards more effective disaster mitigation efforts in order to promote resilience in future disasters, reports News Press. "We have potential risk in places that have not seen a lot of disasters, yet the exposure is tremendous."
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Malawian President Peter Mutharika has admitted that the lack of a National disaster risk management policy is hampering efforts to relocate people living in flood-prone areas to higher ground, reports Nyasa Times. The President said that the policy, which was started in 1991, would guide stakeholders in implementing programmes and activities to effecti…
US$200 Million Program is World Bank’s Biggest in Bolivia
La Paz – The World Bank (WB) Board of Executive Directors approved US$200 million in financing today to strengthen Bolivia’s legal and institutional framework for the comprehensive management of disaster and climate risks. Fifty percent of these funds come from the International Development Asso…
Nine years after the tragedy, Saint Bernard still grapples with the challenges associated with rebuilding, reports Rappler. Although in 2006, like most other municipalities, it had no organized disaster risk reduction and management office, but two years after the tragedy, Saint Bernard was awarded a recognition of the best DRRM efforts in the country.…
By Sally Williams
As another severe tropical storm hits Mozambique, people still struggling to rebuild lives destroyed by 2019’s Cyclone Idai tell their stories.
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Today, Vasco Limo, Chiramswuana and around 2,300 other homeless people still live in the camp. They have to stand in line for aid, as their last harvest was another disaster. “Intense…
This publication reports on the outcomes of a pilot project to ‘operationalize’ the Making Cities Resilient Campaign in three cities in Africa – Narok and Kisumu in Kenya and Moshi in Tanzania, commenced in 2012 by the UNISDR regional office for Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. It also describes disaster prevention activities undertaken by pilot cities, an…
The overall aim of the training package is to increase awareness on natural hazards and disaster risk reduction (DRR) to key stakeholders with knowledge on disaster management to empower the actors to support their organizations in developing disaster resilient programs and projects.
This training manual is for use in DRR training aimed at building the…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…