The impact of flooding on education and healthcare facilities in Cambodia is often overlooked, but these events can have severe long-term consequences on human capital and productivity.

As its 2023 annual report shows, the Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP) has the skills, tools, and expertise to scale up impact. GWSP supports and enables governments to…

To manage its flood risks, Romania, with the support of the World Bank, has developed new Flood Risk Management Plans for its 11 river basins and for the Danube River, in line with the…

Viet Nam’s quest for water security and the World Bank’s support for this effort have evolved significantly over the past three decades. Today, the focus has shifted towards building resilience…

In the summer of 2022, Pakistan was hit by destructive floods. One third of the country was submerged underwater, About 33 million people were impacted directly, 8 million people were displaced,…

A Year after Pakistan’s Deluge - How community-centric public works are supporting the most vulnerable

The rate at which climate financing is being mobilized is still vastly insufficient, but it is growing. As money is being scaled up for an area of investments, rent seeking and (attempts) at…

Explore the latest World Bank research on urban growth and its links to rising flood risks. Dive deep into data-driven insights on how urbanization trends since 1985 have impacted flood exposure…

The series of global shocks in recent years that started with the COVID-19 pandemic and was compounded by a cost-of-living crisis has brought widespread turmoil to lives and livelihoods, with far-…

In recent years, the World Bank has been exploring the use of artificial intelligence for disaster risk management, such as how to capture housing data with machine learning, and how to do it in a…