GFDRR

Answering the Call to Mainstream DRM: the Great East Japan Earthquake 5 Years On
At 2:46 pm on Friday, March 11, 2011, Japan’s Tohoku region faced the force of the six-minute 9.0-magnitude earthquake that we now call the Great East Japan Earthquake. One legacy of March 11 has been a call to mainstream disaster risk management in development planning and investment.

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Building Resilience into Mozambique’s Roads—Quickly
With support from GFDRR and the World Bank, the government of Mozambique is trying to reconcile the tension between pressing basic repairs and building back better.

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On the Road to Resilience
The Road to Resilience is a bus trip along the entire Indian coastline to provide implementation support for disaster management and climate resilience projects, which are also supported by GFDRR.

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Sustainably Managing Flood Risks in Dakar’s Outer Suburbs
GFDRR helped leverage $90.6 million in World Bank funding to support storm water management and climate change adaptation in Dakar, Senegal.

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Keeping Indonesia’s Capital Safer from Floods
GFDRR is supporting Jakarta's efforts to dredge rivers and canals, as well as rehabilitate embankments and other infrastructure to reduce flooding.

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What's new at gfdrr

Publication

The Triple Dividend of Resilience

Video

CREWS - Climate Risk Early Warning Systems

Publication

Another Nargis Strikes Every Day

Publication

World Reconstruction Conference 2 Proceedings

Publication

Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

Publication

Valuing Weather and Climate

Video

Making Ulaanbaatar More Resilient to Floods

Video

Elders Leading Resilience

Event

Disaster Risk Management Seminar No.8 - Building Regulation for Resilience: Managing Risks for Safer Cities

03/17/2016

Partner Event

InterMET Asia 2016

03/16/2016

Blog

Raising Awareness of Disaster Prevention in Developing Countries [Japanese]

03/12/2016

Partner Event

Workshop: Green Infrastructure Solutions for Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management

03/09/2016

Blog

The growing role of women in disaster risk management

03/08/2016

GFDRR Strategy 2013-2015

This strategy reaffirms GFDRR’s commitment to advance and scale up coordinated financial and technical assistance to disaster prone countries.

GFDRR Work Plan 2016-2018

This Work Plan lays out how GFDRR will continue to implement its strategy 2016–2018.

Stories of Impact

Program Profiles

Thematic Notes