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Hurricane Dorian made landfall in The Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on September 1, battering the northern islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco for almost three days. In the days following the hurricane, reports clearly showed devastation but left many questions. The World Bank’s Global Rapid post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) approach, developed by its Disaster-Resilience Analytics and Solutions (D-RAS) team, was able to address many of the critical questions within 13 days using a rapid, desk-based approach. 

In an era of worsening climate and disaster risks, Sameh Wahba, Global Director for the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice and Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, lay out the case for making our homes and schools safer and stronger.

Drawing on our experience working on resilient education across the globe, GFDRR and the World Bank have recently published an education recovery guidance note. The note provides critical insights that government officials, the private sector and other development practitioners should take into account in the recovery and reconstruction of the education sector over three distinct phases of action.