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People riding bicycles on the street of colorful commercial houses in the historic district of Granada, Nicaragua
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Nicaragua has become a steady member of the Central America and Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company, the region’s primary disaster risk pooling mechanism, established in 2007.
World Bank, the
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El cambio climático está emergiendo como un potente motor para la migración interna.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Documents and publications

La movilidad humana asociada a, o derivada de los desastres y efectos adversos del cambio climático viene recibiendo un interés importante en los últimos años en Centroamérica. Este informe contribuye a un mayor conocimiento de la evidencia sobre la

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Community groups improved local governance and disaster preparedness and assisted with health services for new migrants to better track COVID-19 cases in the community.
Flood Resilience Portal
Documents and publications

This booklet highlights stories of impact from GFDRR’s engagements in International Development Association (IDA) countries. As IDA countries strive to not only build back better in the aftermath of COVID-19, but also sustain and even accelerate the

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Four months after two powerful storms barrelled through Central America, the humanitarian emergency they left in their wake endures for thousands of people.
The New Humanitarian
Impact of floods in South Sudan (2012). UN Photo/Staton Winter
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As the U.N. Security Council meets to discuss growing threats from a heating planet, here are some places where storms, wildfires and drought are fuelling security risks.
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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Mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) into development planning is essential to reversing the current trend of rising disaster impact.
World Bank, the

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