This report provides evidence for three types of benefits – or dividends of resilience – that DRM investments can yield: Avoiding losses when disasters strike; Stimulating economic activity thanks to reduced disaster risk; and Development co-benefits, or uses, of a specific DRM investment.

The study proposes a number of policy options for the Urban Poor Poverty Reduction Working Group (led by Phnom Penh Municipality and UNICEF) and Joint Action Group for DRR to consider: mainstream DRR into urban planning, implement regulations that limit the negative environmental impacts of rapid urban development, increase the capacity of hard

This publication gives an overview of “Strengthened Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Asia and the Caucasus through greater fostering of the Hyogo Framework for Action priorities” activities in eight project cities of Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.