in Nepal, GFDRR has been supporting the government by providing technical advice to the Department of Education, informing the reconstruction and rehabilitation of affected educational facilities, and individually assessing over 5,000 public schools.
• As part of a $200 million project, the WBG is supporting efforts to expand and improve transportation in Morocco’s larger cities. The project is designed to reduce disparities by improving access to social services and economic opportunities and foster urban development by enhancing productivity through improved urban transportation.
• The WBG is providing cutting-edge country capacity building and technical assistance initiatives on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, such as in the Philippines, where such support led the government to approve a $9 billion flood management plan for Metro Manila.
• Working with affected communities: in Vietnam through the national DRM project, disaster management activities are being implemented at the community level. Success of an initial pilot of a World Bank community-based DRM project since 2006 has led to government scale up of the approach in 6,000 additional communities through a national $500 million program.
• In FY12-15, the WBG deployed teams to more than 36 countries affected by natural disasters, mobilizing almost $4.5 billion for resilient recovery and reconstruction. Task teams supported assessments of disaster impacts that informed recovery efforts and helped ensure the integration of resilient measures in the recovery process.
• In FY12-15, three times as much WBG financing supported ex ante measures – such as early warning systems or resilient infrastructure – compared to post-disaster recovery, with the former representing nearly 77 percent of all DRM commitments in FY15 ($4.2 billion).
• As of January 2016, the WBG was providing advisory support to more than 44 countries to develop national-level risk financing strategies and was involved in strengthening regional collaboration in disaster risk financing and insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, the southwest Indian Ocean, and East Asia
Last Updated: Mar 29,2016