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A World Bank-led project improves flood resilience in N'Djamena through drainage cleaning, motor pumps, and dike repairs, reducing 2024 flood impacts. Emergency plans also enhanced disaster response, protecting lives and infrastructure.

Malawi is the first country in Africa to utilize the recently updated Global Task Force for Cholera Control tool to identify priority areas for multi-sectoral interventions (PAMIs, also called hotspots) for cholera control.

InSAR paints a dynamic picture of land deformation over time by detecting minuscule ground displacements on a millimeter scale. This is especially useful in South Asia, with its rugged landscapes and rapid development in hills and mountains.

African Risk Capacity (ARC) Ltd. has come on board to assist the Malawi Government with an insurance innovation that will scale up the World Bank’s Social Support for Resilient Livelihoods Project (SSRLP) in the country.

Trained local community brigades in Mozambique educate and alert communities about impending hazards, helping them prepare and stay safe during extreme weather events.

A coalition of organizations has embarked on a mission to shield these farmers with an innovative solution – index-based flood insurance.

In Malawi, we meet Katie Chisambi and Patricia Chibaka, who, together with their community, are working to address the aftermath of extreme weather events.

Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to climate extremes. The nation’s topography lays its citizens bare to cyclones, flash floods, erosion and drought – not to mention the significant socio-economic impact these bring.

In the hours and days following a devastating flood in June 2021, when a deluge of sediment and debris swallowed parts of the Melamchi River Valley in central Nepal, authorities scrambled to recover the dead and injured.

Nestled in the Horn of Africa, in the eastern part of Ethiopia is the region of Harari, known as the midlands for its semi-arid rolling hills with terraced farms.