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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Propagation of Positive Effects of Postdisaster Policies through Supply Chains: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
This study evaluates the impact of “group subsidies,” a policy intervention to repair and reinstall damaged capital goods and facilities of small and medium-sized enterprises after the Great East Japan earthquake. -
Impacts of Natural Disasters on Households and Small Businesses in India
This paper analyzes the impacts of extreme rainfall and resulting flooding on vulnerable households and small and medium-sized enterprises in Mumbai, Chennai, and Puri District in India. -
Institutional and Governance Dimensions of Flood Risk Management: A Flood Footprint and Accountability Mechanism
This working paper proposes flood footprint and accountability to coordinate risk management projects through appropriate spatial planning at river basin scale. -
Generating Multiple Resilience Dividends from Managing Unnatural Disasters in Asia: Opportunities for Measurement and Policy
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of innovative decision-support tools relating to disaster risk reduction projects, with particular focus on Asia. -
Evidence from Measuring Community Flood Resilience in Asia
This paper highlights the importance of measuring resilience for effectively tackling the underlying drivers of risk and for building resilience. -
Enabling Factors for Financing and Implementing Postdisaster Operations
This paper highlights how governments and other actors can prepare for the governance challenges of disaster response, recovery, and reconstruction. -
Disaster Insurance in Developing Asia: An Analysis of Market-Based Schemes
This working paper analyzes the status, types, and evolution of market-based disaster insurance schemes across developing Asia. -
The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Nepal: Country Diagnostics Assessment
This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Nepal, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments. -
The Links between Climate Change, Disasters, Migration, and Social Resilience in Asia: A Literature Review
This paper reviews relevant literature on disasters and migration to present predicted impacts and likely trends on mobility, economic growth, and social resilience in Asia. -
Microfinance for Disaster Recovery: Lessons from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake
This report assesses the impact of a livelihood restoration microcredit provided to affected households after the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015.