Reports

Key Overview • Community-based early warning systems (CBEWS) bridge crucial gaps in providing early warning for all. • CBEWS emphasise anticipatory action by empowering communities to monitor and prepare for risks, rather than respond to disasters. • CBEWS require community participation…

Islamabad, 14 February 2023 — Ministry of Climate Change and UNDP Pakistan held a four-day training, supported by the Green Climate Fund, for government officials and technical teams on assembling, installing, commissioning and operating Early Warning…

Rome, 16 February 2023: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the UN's rural development agency, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam last week signed a loan agreement to promote inclusive and sustainable agricultural growth…

Sri Lanka is exposed to multiple hazards, such as violent tropical storms, flash flooding, and landslides. In 2017 alone, floods caused 213 deaths, damaged over 88,000 houses, and displaced over 100,000 people. As the country’s urban…

On January 24, 2023, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Robert F. Godec, Hans Guttman, Executive Director of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), and Dr. Karen M. St. Germain, Earth Science Division Director, NASA launched SERVIR-Southeast Asia…

This article describes how climate change and extreme weather impact vulnerable riparian communities and settlements. The analysis is done by reviewing past research and empirical case studies from riparian rural communities of the impact zone of…

II. INTRODUCTION The Pacific Small Island Developing States (P-SIDS) are extremely vulnerable to natural and manmade hazards, including explosive remnants of war, due to their geographical location, topography, fragile terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and economic sectors. Many…

The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund…

Overview In East Africa, harvesting of main season cereals finalized in the northern parts of the subregion under mixed conditions due to impacts of widespread flooding in Sudan and South Sudan. In Ethiopia, harvesting of Meher season…

This annual report presents the progress and achievements made under the Japan-World Bank program for mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) in developing countries from the period between July 1, 2021, and April 15, 2022. Progress was…