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This seismic risk profile of Moldova, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

The ABRA aims to identify the potential for disasters, exposed population and their vulnerabilities to disasters, and estimate impact, so protective measures can be taken to reduce damage and harm to the population and environment.

This paper explores the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to learn lessons on how to build the resilience of their social protection system.

In recent decades, South-East Europe has experienced extreme climatic disasters, followed by mass migration and mobility. Direct barriers to education arise from infrastructural damage to schools as well as school closures following extreme flooding.

This regional synthesis report identifies common and divergent patterns of climate displacement as well as barriers to education for climate displaced persons in several countries in South-Eastern Europe.

Chisinau municipality is the first city in the Republic of Moldova to join the UNDRR flagship initiative – Making Cities Resilient 2030 and the first city to use the Preliminary Disaster  Resilience Scorecard for Cities and the Public Health Addendum.

Over the past decade alone, floods and droughts in Moldova have caused more than US$1.2 billion in damages with climate change threatening to worsen these losses further.

In this disaster risk management (DRM) country policy note, chapter one provides an overview of Moldova’s disaster and climate risk profile. Chapter two reviews the current institutional and legal framework for disaster risk management and financing