Country risk and governance profiles

Uncover the trends of disaster risk and learn more about country-level capacities to prevent disasters.

Understanding disaster risk is crucial for effectively preventing disasters. This page provides comprehensive and up-to-date risk profiles for countries around the world. The profiles offer in-depth information on risk for each country; they help identify and prioritize risk, guiding risk management.

Access detailed reports on each country's vulnerability, exposure, and resilience to various disasters, explore informative maps that visualize disaster risks, and understand key indicators and metrics used to assess disaster risk.

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India: Voluntary National Report of the MTR SF

This is India'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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Fact sheet: Climate change and drought

Climate change will increase the risk and severity of droughts in parts of Canada that already struggle with water shortages, like the southern Prairies and the interior of British Columbia.
Canadian Climate Institute (L'Institut Climatique du Canada)
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Pakistan Crisis Preparedness Gap Analysis

The Crisis Preparedness Gap Analysis (CPGA) is a key diagnostic, which assesses countries’ capacity to deal with crises across core systems and provides priority recommendations.
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Tropical cyclones in Nicaragua: Historical impact and contemporary exposure to disaster risk

The article presents a historical review of the direct effects of tropical cyclones on society in Nicaragua from 1852 to 2020 and analyzes the statistical probabilities of future hurricane-spawned high winds over Nicaragua.
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Seychelles disaster management and climate change handbook 2024

This Seychelles Disaster Management and Climate Change Handbook is intended to provide a basis for future bilateral or multilateral engagement on the interconnections between disaster risk and climate change.
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Building regulatory capacity assessment for Liberia

The Building Regulatory Capacity Assessment for Liberia aims to identify priority actions to strengthen Liberia’s building regulatory framework, informed by a combination of literature review, field visits and consultations with experts and stakeholders.
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Building regulatory capacity assessment for Sierra Leone

The BRCA aims to provide a review of the existing building regulatory framework in Sierra Leone and identify intervention areas and priority actions that address gaps and optimize regulatory systems and processes.
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Scaling up locally-led climate action in Cambodia

The report maps out the government’s key regulatory frameworks, policy priorities, and institutional arrangements that could deliver climate finance and accelerate climate action at the local level.
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