Disasters are no longer rare, isolated shocks. They are an escalating development challenge. In 2024 alone, global economic losses from disasters reached record levels, with the poorest countries hit ...

Small business owners are strongly encouraged to make contingency plans for responding to and recovering from disasters that may befall them. The motivation for doing so may be more sharply present in ...

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 ...

Truly understanding climate-related disaster risk, and the management of that risk, can inform effective action on climate adaptation and the loss and damage mechanism, the main vehicle under the UN ...

Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...

The Bank’s engagement on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) has proved highly successful insofar as supporting a sustained dialogue with the Government of Colombia (GoC) on strengthening the national ...

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most natural disaster-prone regions. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific estimates that natural disasters drain the region ...

Building on the progress achieved through previous Bank-financed projects, the Second Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO II) project ...

With the arrival of 2026, India’s disaster management system stands more capable, more anticipatory and better integrated ...

Brac, in collaboration with UN Women and with financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), has launched the "Gender Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction in ...