In March of this year, the BRICK 2026 Knowledge Exchange Event in Bucharest brought together more than 100 practitioners and experts from across Europe and Asia to share lessons on how they are putting the right “bricks” in place for more resilient societies.
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When communities take the lead in charting their path to resilience, progress can be much more sustainable.
Learn about how households were at the helm of constructing 274,000 homes in Pakistan with @GFDRR support: tinyurl.com/mutm3cs8
Last week, the @WorldBankGroup and GFDRR, in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) of Marshall Islands, facilitated a one-day workshop in Majuro to assess the country’s institutional readiness for emergency preparedness and response.
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✔️The identification of 60,000 buildings in flood-prone areas in Juba, South Sudan, providing the city's first consolidated digital urban baseline
✔️ AI-driven building detection in Kigali, Rwanda which identified thousands of buildings absent from the property tax registry
Cities and towns in the Pacific region face significant risks from natural hazards, which are projected to increase with climate change and increasing urbanization.
Our latest report draws on risk modeling and scientific analyses to examine who and what is at risk from critical
