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The US is providing $310 million in increased assistance to the Northern Triangle, including $255 million in assistance to meet immediate and urgent humanitarian needs.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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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
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The past hurricane season in the Atlantic has been one of the worst for Honduras since Hurricane Mitch, which caused more than 5,000 deaths in 1998.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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This study assesses the dollar benefit of a neighborhood approach intervention on disaster risk reduction in small-sized, densely populated, and hazard-prone informal settlements across Latin American and Caribbean countries. The authors use a life

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Within hours of Eta’s landfall and flooding rains, researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center worked to predict landslides and map the storm’s aftermath.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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This report presents the preliminary results of the technical assistance to connect and develop coordination between three sectors in the Central American and Dominican Republic region — Disaster Risk Management, Culture and Cultural Heritage, and

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Through the Honduras and Nicaragua hydromet capacity assessment and strengthen project, a Modernization Plan was proposed for the strengthening of hydromet services in Honduras. This modernization plan will require an investment of approximately US 10


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