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The rapid assessment in four partner countries evaluated current EWS capabilities and provided recommendations for strengthening these systems to improve Maternal Newborn and Child Health and Family Planning and Reproductive Health outcomes.

Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions?

According to the World Bank’s CCDR, the country must build stronger and more resilient institutions, address increased conflict and fragility situations, and invest substantially to achieve its ambitious climate goals.

This study unveils diverse disaster risk trends and patterns, revealing variations in hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity across African countries by utilizing the INFORM risk model data spanning from 2012 to 2022

This seismic risk profile of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 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.

Despite the increasing frequency and severity of climate and disaster events occurring globally, the vast majority of these risks are uninsured. In fact, in 2022, 61% of global disaster losses were not covered by insurance.

KivuGreen, a youth-led enterprise, is strengthening the climate resilience of small-scale farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through a mobile service which provides them with real-time forecasts and climate-smart agricultural advice.

In the shadow of a deadly eruption in 2021, students in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, are learning about future hazards.