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This Risk Spotlight Common Country Analysis focuses on Kazakhstan.

As Kazakhstan and parts of Russia grapple with severe flooding due to rapid and unusually early snowmelt and heavy rainfall, the stark reality of climate change impacts becomes increasingly undeniable.

The report reflects the outcomes of a 2.5-day Regional Lessons Learned Workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan, held from 19-21 July 2023 on disaster risk reduction in relation to women and children.

This seismic risk profile of Kazakhstan, 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.

This note outlines the “Strengthening Financial Resilience and Accelerating Risk Reduction in Central Asia” Program's work in addressing the challenges in disaster risk management for Central Asian governments.

This assessment aims at the delivery of a probabilistic risk assessment of floods and earthquakes, as well as assessment of landslide susceptibility and selected land-slide scenarios, and their impact on multiple asset types.

This note describes the role of the World Bank's SFRARR Program in resilience building in Central Asia through quantifying disaster risks, exposure mapping, and establishing fundamental awareness and capacities around disaster risk management and finance.

This is the Country Disaster Risk Profile of the Kyrgyz Republic which is the result of the "National Disaster Loss Databases Implementation in Central Asia" project, which spanned from July 2020 to January 2023.