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Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

March 31, 2021
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Maitreyi Bordia Das
Victoria Stanley
A woman beneficiary in the village of Soavina in Madagascar.

Three reflections on gender in DRM

March 08, 2021
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Alvina Erman
Kayenat Kabir
View looking down at Utatsu Community in Minami Sanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture from Mishima Shrine in August 2011

A decade of lessons from Japan’s mega disaster

March 11, 2021
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Shoko Takemoto
Naho Shibuya
Keiko Sakoda
Aerial view of Lima, Peru

Cities are the hub of the global green recovery

September 03, 2020
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Jorge Muñoz Wells
Students line up to wash their hands before eating at Kanda Estate Primary School in Accra, Ghana

A new fund for better social, environmental and infrastructure outcomes

December 08, 2020
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Inga Afanasieva
Maitreyi Bordia Das
Sameh Wahba
Rocio lives with her 8 children in los Bañados de Asunción, Paraguay

COVID-19 has revealed that “inclusive” housing policies are still too exclusive

November 06, 2020
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Luis Triveno
Carina Lakovits
Community representatives visit a family in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Can social enterprises help with an inclusive recovery?

October 06, 2020
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Maitreyi Bordia Das
Elaine Tinsley
Ibrahim Ali Khan
Heavy traffic in Beijing, China

Want to help reduce emissions? Reschedule our cities

September 29, 2020
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Carlo Ratti
High rises and hotel buildings in Punta Pacifica, Panama City, Panama

Activating more private capital to make cities more sustainable

September 17, 2020
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Jonathan Woetzel
Dr. Shannon Bouton
Hotel in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.

Financing climate-smart urban development in the wake of COVID-19

September 10, 2020
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Mafalda Duarte
Young people perform traditional Chinese opera

Culture in the COVID-19 recovery: Good for your wallet, good for resilience, and good for you

August 20, 2020
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Sameh Wahba
Ernesto Ottone R
Rana Amirtahmasebi
Hurricanes don’t know borders

Hurricanes don’t know borders. Neither does a pandemic

August 18, 2020
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Joaquin Toro
A young boy enjoying a wheelchair-accessible building

Ensuring an equitable recovery: Disability inclusion in post-disaster planning

July 27, 2020
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Mari Koistinen
Alice Mortlock
Women sit on park bench

Our planet is aging—fast. How can cities be ready?

July 16, 2020
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Yuko Arai

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Road geohazard risk management: new tools and e-learning

April 27, 2021
Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

March 31, 2021
Female commuters on a bus in Mumbai, India. Photo: Van J/Flickr

Filling in knowledge gaps on gender equality in transportation

March 08, 2021
A woman beneficiary in the village of Soavina in Madagascar.

Three reflections on gender in disaster risk management

March 08, 2021
A young boy waits at a Bus Rapid Transit station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Photo: Hendri Lombard/World Bank

Connectivity for Human Capital: Are African public transport systems up to the task?

March 04, 2021
In September 2018, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake caused Indonesia's Palu IV Bridge to collapse. Photo: Dhody Wachyudi/Shutterstock

Central Sulawesi disaster: An opportunity to strengthen road and bridge resilience in Indonesia?

February 26, 2021
Commuters waiting at a bus stop in Lima during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Victor Idrogo/World Bank

In the wake of COVID, rebuilding transport is not good enough. We must bounce forward.

February 10, 2021
Baboo fish at the Limulunga District Kate dam fish farming community project.

In Zambia, increasing climate resilience for rural communities through support to sustainable livelihoods

February 03, 2021
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Investing in transport: How can we help countries make better-informed decisions?

January 28, 2021
Source: Jubair Bin Iqbal, 2016. Fire at Tampaco Foils Factory, Bangladesh.

From urban fire risk to effective mitigation – Building safer & healthier cities

January 26, 2021

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A woman beneficiary in the village of Soavina in Madagascar.

Three reflections on gender in DRM

March 08, 2021
Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

Celebrating women leaders in Urban, Disaster Risk Management and Land projects

March 31, 2021
View looking down at Utatsu Community in Minami Sanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture from Mishima Shrine in August 2011

A decade of lessons from Japan’s mega disaster

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Road geohazard risk management: new tools and e-learning

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