The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

Business owners face numerous challenges on a regular basis, but it is the daily challenges that can distract owners from a potentially major catastrophe. “Too often businesses are unprepared for ...

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the ...

This article examines the significance of establishing a legal foundation for maintaining balance in emergency management, emphasizing the importance of legal and risk management systems in disaster ...

WASHINGTON, April 9, 2020 -- The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$500 million in financing to help strengthen the Philippine government’s capacity to address disaster risks, ...

Prepare, mitigate, respond, recover. It’s a cycle I have been through thousands of times. Navigating hundreds of disasters and crises ranging from small to seemingly impossible is all part of the job ...

The West African country of Ghana—population approximately 34 million—is facing compounding challenges related to climate change. The resiliency of Ghana’s economy, the stability of its infrastructure ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

The National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) is evolving from a facilitating and funding entity to a catalytic fund leading on disaster risk reduction measures and climate resilience paradigm in ...