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The event focused on disaster risk management through the lens of African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.

Later this month, participants from all five Central Asian countries will discuss issues of natural disasters at the Forum on Financial Protection against Natural Disasters in Almaty.

GFDRR supports resilient reconstruction planning and post-disaster assessments, helping more than 50 disaster-affected countries with these approaches since its launch in 2007.

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, according to the World Bank.

GFDRR's Mathijs van Ledden speaks to ZDF German Television about reducing flood risk in cities. [German]

Japan will help other countries train experts on disaster management and prevention under an initiative to be unveiled at an upcoming United Nations conference.

Understanding risk is more than just modeling risk; it requires an understanding of the development and social processes that underlie and drive the generation of disaster risk.

Under the Grant Agreement, the Royal Government of Bhutan will receive a Grant of US$ 3.8 million from the World Bank for the Hydromet Services and Disaster Resilience Regional Project.

The World Bank Group, as part of its Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project, and GFDRR facilitated this agreement through a $30 million loan granted to the Government of Jamaica.

Imagine being able to choose the safest school for your kids–the school that is least likely to flood, for example–by using up-to-date map data. This is possible thanks to green mapping technology that is transforming how communities operate.