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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$7 million in financing to Seychelles to help the country better cope with extreme natural events such as floods, mud slides, or tsunamis.

Cities around the world are failing to plan for fast-increasing risks from extreme weather and other hazards, particularly as population growth and surging migration put more people in the path of those threats.

The final of the Women Entrepreneurs of the MENA region (WeMENA) contest, a regional initiative launched by the World Bank, and supported by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), selected four winners.

[De L'Agora, quotidien independant d'information et d'analyse de la République centrafricaine]

Le gouvernement centrafri­cain en collaboration avec la CEEAC organise à Bangui un ate­lier de formation sur l'évaluation des besoins post-catastrophes (PDNA) et le cadre de relèvement aux catastrophes (DRF) à l'hotel Ledger-Plaza du 22 au 26 juillet 2019. La cérémonie d'ouverture de cet atelier de formation a été prési­dée hier par le Premier Ministre, Chef du gouvernement Firmin NGREBADA, assisté du Ministre de l'Action Humanitaire avec les repré­sentants des organisations telles que: Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement, de la Banque Mondiale et de celui de la CEEAC.

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The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery has developed a diagnostic tool called CityStrength to help cities identify areas of weakness and the investments and institutional measures necessary to address them.

By 2050 there will be $158 trillion in assets at risk from flooding alone — not to mention 1.3 billion people at risk — driven largely by climate change and urbanization.

The World Bank approved US$50 million for the Strengthening Critical Infrastructure Against Natural Hazards Project in Tajikistan.

Today, the first African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) Africa Hydromet Forum opened its doors to over 500 African leaders from governments, public and private sector representatives, civil society, and development partners.

When countries rebuild stronger, faster and more inclusively after natural disasters they can reduce the impact on people’s livelihoods and well-being by as much as 31 percent, potentially cutting global average losses from $555 billion to $382 billion per year.

The issue of global financing for development is a critical theme in the international development agenda with the most recent United Nations (UN) meeting being the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), which was held in July.