Declares 10 districts highly vulnerable to floods, two to landslides and one each to snowfall and glacial lake outburst floods.

In disaster-prone central Vietnam, community-based disaster risk management puts local villages and communities at the center of preparedness efforts. The Government of Vietnam is spending $18.5 ...

International pre-arranged financing (PAF) for disasters reached a record US$9.4 billion in 2024, marking a significant ...

Disaster Risk Management (DRM) officials are scheduled to assess the damage from an overnight fire at the Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Hout Bay this Friday morning.The fire destroyed several ...

Mr. Ousmane Dione, World Bank Vice President for the Middle East & North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, said that this ...

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...

Florida Kunyambo, a widowed mother in Nsusa Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kapeni in Blantyre, shares a fragile ...

The government’s recently approved National Multi-Hazard Contingency Plan (NMHCP) has ushered in a new era of proactive ...

Ellen Fote from Mateyu Village in Traditional Authority Mbenje in Nsanje District says over the past five years, she has been unlucky with disasters. She has experienced cyclone Idai, Gombe and Ana. A ...