Documents & Reports
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Addressing climate risk : the Sri Lanka Climate Resilience Program (English)
Sri Lanka is highly vulnerable to natural hazards and has embarked on a comprehensive disaster risk management program to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and to adapt the stock of infrastructure...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 87531 Document Date: April 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Working together for identifying disaster risk in Pakistan (English)
While the entire country is vulnerable to natural hazards, there has yet to be a national level risk assessment of Pakistan which is considered as the first step to enable the government to prioritize...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 82510 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Indian state comes to Mexico to learn and share experiences about green growth and climate change : South-South exchange program : Funcionarios indios visitan Mexico para estudiar y compartir experiencias en torno al crecimiento verde y el cambio climatico (Spanish)
In September 2012, the World Bank approved a 100 million dollars Development Policy Loan (DPL) for the state of Himachal Pradesh (HP), India to support its transformation to green development. The exchange...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80468 Document Date: July 8, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Indian state comes to Mexico to learn and share experiences about green growth and climate change : South-South exchange program (English)
In September 2012, the World Bank approved a 100 million dollars Development Policy Loan (DPL) for the state of Himachal Pradesh (HP), India to support its transformation to green development. The exchange...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80468 Document Date: July 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Learning from the Pakistan experience of post-2005 earthquake rural housing reconstruction (English)
The earthquake that struck northern parts of Pakistan on the morning of October 8, 2005 left widespread destruction in its wake. It killed over 73,000 people and left more than 2.8 million in need of shelter...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 79740 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Probabilistic modeling for disaster risk management for Bogota, Colombia : Modelacion probabilista para la gestion del riesgo de desastre el caso de Bogota, Colombia (Spanish)
This brief states that the intense impact of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other hazardous events on the vulnerable communities throughout the world highlights the socio-natural character risk that...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81164 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Disaster risk management in South Asia : a regional overview (English)
The increased frequency and intensity of disaster events is well documented and understood by most stakeholders across the world. Governments, international institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80146 Document Date: May 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Disaster risk management and cultural heritage in Bhutan (English)
Many of Bhutan's cultural heritage sites, such as dzongs (fortresses), monasteries, and stupas (relic mounds), are today in active use virtually as they have for centuries, constituting what is known as...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 79763 Document Date: April 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Metro Colombo Urban Development Project : transforming Colombo into a flood resilient middle income country capital (English)
The Colombo metropolitan area is Sri Lanka's commercial hub and accounts for almost 50 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). However, Colombo is highly vulnerable to flooding, and has...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 77904 Document Date: March 4, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project for Orissa : application of GIS for cyclone risk mitigation infrastructure (English)
India is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, particularly earthquakes, flood, drought, cyclone and landslides. In the last decade, India has seen some major disasters including the Bhuj earthquake in...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76324 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project in Tamil Nadu, India (English)
Coastal Tamil Nadu, one of the most densely populated regions of the world, is facing major issues of sea level variation, shoreline erosion, salt water intrusion, and degradation of mangroves and existing...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76323 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Bihar Kosi Flood Recovery Project : owner driven housing reconstruction (English)
The Kosi River rises in the Tibetan plateau of China and flows across Nepal into Bihar, joining the Ganges near Kursela, India. On 18th August 2008, the Kosi breached its embankments at Kusaha in Nepal’s...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76316 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Management of slope stability in communities (MoSSaiC) in Saint Lucia (English)
In many developing countries, landslide risk is increasing as unauthorized housing is built on already landslide prone hill-slopes surrounding urban areas. This risk accumulation is driven by growing population...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 78723 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Building climate resilience in the Eastern Caribbean : regional disaster vulnerability reduction program (English)
The increasing pace of climate change will continue tohave negative impacts on the people, environments,and economies of the Eastern Caribbean islands. Risingsea levels, increasing influx of hurricanes...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113537 Document Date: July 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed