Project Impact, a short-lived federal initiative that worked to create disaster-resistant communities, showed that teamwork by different government levels and the private and nonprofit sectors can do ...

A direct lending program providing financial relief after a natural disaster could be eliminated if President-elect Donald Trump follows the recommendations of the conservative Project 2025 playbook, ...

On November 9 2020, the Africa Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and ICCROM experts met online to develop a project that will contribute to capacity-building in disaster risk management and ...

Project 2025 outlines changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including reducing the federal government’s share of local disaster relief contributions from 75% to 25%, privatizing flood ...

Climate change exacerbates the severity of natural disasters, which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Mitigating disasters’ health consequences is critical to promoting health equity, ...

A stress testing methodology and tool were recently developed to ensure that the economic analyses of World Bank projects properly consider climate and disaster risks. When applied to a transport ...

If you’ve been in this industry for any length of time, you’ve probably been caught up in some sort of project disaster. They happen to the best of us, and they cause financial suffering for our ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has launched the Global Flood Disaster Management Project (GFDMP) aimed at reducing the economic and infrastructure losses caused by recurrent flooding.

The conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration calls for weakening the government’s response to disasters by slashing public rebuilding money and dissolving federal flood insurance. That ...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated 125 border infrastructure projects, including the Shyok tunnel in Ladakh, at a ...

Ted Lemoi stands outside a FEMA disaster relief recovery center in Cumberland, R.I., after receiving a $810 grant and a $27,000 loan from the small business association to repair is flood damaged home ...