IDB disaster risk management: annual report 2006
This report higlights the urgent need to reduce disaster risk in Latin America and the Caribbean, as losses are increasing and vulnerability growing.
The main accomplishments of 2006 may be grouped in the three pillars of the Disaster Risk Management Action Plan (2005-2008), which is implemented by IDB:
- Country programming and portfolio management;
- Bank policy, procedures and financial instruments; and
- Organizational strengthening in Disaster Risk Management.