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Using evaluative lessons from the World Bank's and others' experience, this note highlights the urgent need to invest in climate change mitigation, disaster preparedness, early response, and post-disaster reconstruction. It advocates for finding solutions to climate change effects and establishing disaster mitigation plans to be seen as a part of growth policies, not as an added cost, and to focus on streamlining prevention and mitigation measures in national policies.