Compendium of Good Practices on Quality Infrastructure 2024
Building Resilience to Natural Disasters
In an era defined by the urgent climate crisis, unpredictable weather patterns and increasingly frequent natural disasters, ensuring infrastructure resilience to such events is paramount. This report discusses ways of enhancing government capacities to prevent, react and rebuild, thereby minimising the impact of natural disasters on infrastructure assets and operations. It identifies data, collaboration and technologies as drivers of resilience, and highlights financial resources, technical skills and regulatory frameworks as key enablers. The report presents seven actionable principles to ensure infrastructure resilience, drawing from global good practices and in-depth analyses of infrastructure projects in Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mozambique and the United States.
Ensuring infrastructure resilience to natural disasters is a global priority
As climate change continues to alter natural hazard patterns, there is an urgent need to strengthen infrastructure resilience to natural disasters. Technology, data and collaboration, enabled by adequate financing, investment, technical expertise and regulatory frameworks, are key to increase prevention, reaction and rebuilding capacities. While building resilience to natural disasters is a global challenge, developing countries, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are among the most vulnerable and require targeted support. Increased international partnerships and enhanced efforts from development banks are imperative to bolster infrastructure resilience in developing countries and support their journey towards sustainable development.
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