Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM)
ADB helps its member countries become more resilient to disasters by financing flood control and water resource management projects, as well as innovative ways of financing disaster risk management.
Investments in disaster resilience can reduce losses, contributing to sustained economic growth, poverty reduction, and enhanced natural resources management. These investments have the most far-reaching effect if they are undertaken in the context of wider development and are carefully integrated into the development process. Successful investment in resilience also requires active cooperation between governments, the private sector, civil society, and the international community.
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Assessing Financial Protection against Disasters: A Guidance Note on Conducting a Disaster Risk Finance Diagnostic
The findings of this guidance note can feed into developing disaster risk finance strategies, which set out policy priorities aimed at meeting post-disaster financing needs. -
Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund: Review of Performance (January 2015-December 2016)
The review covers the period from January 2015 to December 2016 in particular detail while also reporting on overall fund performance since its establishment in 2009. -
Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Transforming Economies and Policies for a Sustainable Future
In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards. -
Disaster Risk in Asia and the Pacific: Assessment, Management, and Finance
This report summarizes the proceedings of 3 events: the ADB-OECD Forum on Disaster Risk Financing, and the Global Seminar on Disaster Risk Financing in September 2015, and the Asian Forum of Insurance Regulators Roundtable in April 2016. -
Disaster Risk Financing in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is disaster-prone, with floods and cyclones being the most frequent and severe danger. Applying appropriate disaster risk financing is key to minimizing economic impacts from disasters and sustain the country’s development. -
Incentives for Reducing Disaster Risk in Urban Areas
Experiences in 3 case study areas in Viet Nam, Nepal, and the Philippines indicate that there is an opportunity to leverage existing incentive and/or investment programs to encourage investment in disaster risk reduction. -
Reducing Disaster Risk by Managing Urban Land Use: Guidance Notes for Planners
Urban areas in Asian countries continue to face significant disaster risk. Rapid unplanned growth of cities increases the exposure and vulnerability of urban populations and their physical assets to natural hazards. -
Disaster-Resilient Microfinance: Learning from Communities Affected by Typhoon Haiyan
This analysis of the economic recovery of households in the Philippines badly affected by typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) explores how microfinance can improve its role before and after such disasters hit. -
Promoting Sustainable Development through Disaster Risk Management
Natural hazards challenge efforts to reduce poverty, however there are opportunities to take actions that strengthen both disaster resilience and support sustainable development. -
Water-Related Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in the People’s Republic of China
In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the incidence of natural disasters—particularly water-related disasters—are on the rise, resulting in an increased exposure to and vulnerability of the population to disasters.