May 2012: The World Bank through its Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is assisting the government of Mexico to position disaster risk management (DRM) as a priority topic for Mexico’s G20 presidency in 2012... Read More

May 2012: Nine million people are currently facing food shortages in the Horn of Africa. Learn how the World Bank and GFDRR are helping people in the Horn of Africa and Sahel.. Read More

May 2012: Matching satellite technology with crop insurance in India has proved to be a winning combination for World Bank practitioners, India’s small farmers and potentially farmers throughout the world.. Read More

May 2012: Mapping experts and development professionals came together under the “GFDRR Innovation Series” – which brought together almost 200 people from 70 organizations .. Read More

May 2012: Helping to protect communities around the world, the GFDRR Capacity Development team launched a new e-learning program in Djibouti... Read More

May 2012: "Flood risk management and urban resilience requires innovations...," said Mr. Fauzi Bowo, Governor of Jakarta at the 2-day workshop hosted by the Republic of Korea and GFDRR... Read More

The Resilience Dialogue, hosted by the European Union, the Government of Japan and the World Bank/GFDRR, put urgency to the task of building resilience in communities and countries around the world.... Read More

April 2012: Cities & Flooding will be launched in Geneva and Brussels this week in partnership with the World Bank, GFDRR, UNISDR, and WMO focusing on the impact floods around the world and how to prepare... Read More

RECORDING AVAILABLE: The Resilience Dialogue - Preparing for a Changing World: Rapid urbanization and climate change are reshaping and exacerbating disaster risk.. Read More

April 2012: In Wenchuan Earthquake-hit Longnan Municipality, a project helped train principals and teachers on disaster management and ... Read More

March 2012: Understanding the importance of geospatial data to improve information-based decision making for disaster risk reduction, Saint Lucia launched its first national ... Read More

March 2012: Many residents in poor Philippine communities that were heavily affected by Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng in 2009 are still struggling to recover ... Read More

March 2012: How can you help protect your community? GFDRR, in partnership with EMI, will be offering two specialized courses to build community-based resilience... Read More

March 2012: Japan is in our thoughts as the recovery continues and we pass the first anniversary of the 2011 disaster: the earthquake that changed the world forever ... Read More

February 2012: Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Day at the World Bank: Building Resilience to Disasters, Delivering Results... Read More

February 2012: “The future isn’t what it used to be”. When baseball great Yogi Berra uttered that now famous phrase more than 50 years ago, he couldn’t know how fitting it would be today... Read More

February 2012: Floods, the most frequent among all natural disasters, are on the increase worldwide. The fast-growing cities of East Asia are particularly vulnerable... Read More

February 2012: Congratulations to the new EERI-GFDRR Housner Fellows, Hassan Mdala (pictured above), Carlien Bou-Chedid, and Syed Mohammad Ali! Read More

January 2012: Two years after the earthquake in Haiti... Read More

January 2012: The Philippine Government draws down US$500M to finance expenses related to the government’s recovery and reconstruction efforts... Read More

January 2012: How can we help battle hunger in the Horn of Africa? How can we prevent starvation and death from future droughts and other climate-related crises in the Horn and elsewhere? Read More

January 2012: GFDRR's Capacity Development Team - Helping to prepare disaster-prone countries for natural catastrophes... Read More

December 2011: South Asian Countries Collaborating to Build Resilience Together Read More

December 2011: Lessons Learned from the 2011 Typhoon in Lao PDR Read More

December 2011: Following the recent drought emergency, the Kenyan government has embarked on an ambitious program to mitigate the impacts of similar disasters in the future.. Read More

November 2011: The HLF4 - the world's biggest forum on development assistance – was attended by approximately 3,000 people from 160 countries. GFDRR co-hosted the ... Read More

November 2011: World Bank/GFDRR, ASEAN, and UNISDR cooperate to strengthen fiscal resilience to natural disasters.. Read More

Apply to the Housner / GFDRR Fellows Program! Application deadline is November 18th, 2011 .. Read More

October 2011: GFDRR, in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), held a Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) training course .. Read More

October 2011: “A wave of excitement has taken over the country” said Jim Joseph, Ministry of Planning, St. Lucia, during the Eastern Caribbean regional workshop on data management .. Read More