Six ways Southeast Asia strengthened disaster risk management
Southeast Asia is one of the most hazard-prone regions in Asia and the Pacific. The region suffered $91 billion in financial losses in 2004–2014 from the impacts of typhoons, storm surges, floods, drought, and earthquakes. Southeast Asia’s poor and vulnerable are also the ones most likely to be adversely affected when disasters strike. To advance proactive integrated disaster risk management measures within ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs) in Southeast Asia, ADB and the Government of Canada established the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM) Fund in February 2013. The I...
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