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The World Bank has approved a €400 million Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan for Romania, which includes a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (CAT DDO). The CAT DDO offers a more robust national framework for disaster risk management and increases the capacity to better identify and reduce disaster risks, including from a fiscal perspective.

This document lays out a foundation for transboundary action for adaptation in the Danube Delta region. Based on the outcomes of the vulnerability assessment, it focuses both on facilitating the adaptation of natural systems and reducing human pressures

Romania recently celebrated 85 years of civil protection. In the last few decades, rather than waiting for the disaster to strike, civil protection shifted towards a more proactive and integrated approach – focusing on better preparedness and actionable early warnings to minimize disaster risks and enhance the efficiency and speed of a response.

This set of educational materials aims to increase the self-protection of children aged 7-12 for the following risks: storms, forest fires, influenza, emergencies, floods, landslides, and earthquakes. Additional educational materials are intended to raise

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This Compendium is the final publication of the first phase of the IDMP Central and Eastern Europe (IDMP CEE) and provides an overview of the programme’s outputs and accomplishments achieved in the period from 2013 to 2015.

The focus of IDMP CEE was to

The recently completed 2017 International Summer School on Disaster Management in Romania provided participants with theoretical knowledge and practical skills in emergency response operations. The trainees received training in disaster risk management, disaster response management and coordination, and the disaster environment.

This study investigated risk-reduction behavior at the household level in three European Union Member States with fundamentally different insurance and compensation schemes. It sought to understand if and how insurance and public assistance influence