Disaster risk management programs for priority countries
Source
World Bank, the
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Publication Year
2009
Number of pages
295 p.
This publications focuses on 20 core countries with high vulnerability to natural hazards and low economic resilience to cope with disaster impacts including anticipated climate change and variability: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, Nepal, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Togo, Vietnam, and Republic of Yemen. For each of them, it gives a summary of hazard profiles and ongoing disaster risk management programs.