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The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) are working to develop a recipe to advance resilience for South Asia and beyond. For example, as part of its plan to provide safe havens to nearly 14 million people in nine coastal districts, Bangladesh is making emergency evacuation shelters more accessible to differently-abled people.
The Central Asia Regional Water Supply and Sanitation Conference convened participants from the five countries of the region in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to discuss best practices for building climate-resistant water supply and sanitation services.
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.
Medical emergencies are a race against time. In many high-income countries, ambulance response time is just over 5 minutes. But what happens in places where roads are often flooded? Network analysis and open data can help us tackle this challenge.
A couple of weeks after the Bahamas were flattened by Hurricane Dorian, the World Bank and GFDRR were on the ground supporting the government's reconstruction and recovery efforts.
[De Le Confident, quotidien independant d'information generale de la République centrafricaine]
Des membres du gouvernement, des représentànts d'Organisations Non Gouvernementales (ONG), et des Associations anti-catastrophes étaient réunis le 22 juillet 2019 à l'hôtel Ledger-Piazza autour de l'évaluatlon des besoins post catastrophes (PDNA) et le cadre de relèvement (DRF). Cet atelier technique est organisé et financé par la CEEAC et la Faculté Mondiale pour la prévention des catastrophes et le relèvement (GFDRR) de la Banque Mondiale.
[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.
Taking control of disaster risk management in their country, officials from the Government of Afghanistan learned new ways to identify disaster risks and apply that information towards more resilient infrastructure during a training that was supported by the Government of Japan and GFDRR.
Source: Tele Tchad
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.