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This evaluation aims to surface lessons from the World Bank’s support for DRR, focusing on disasters caused by natural hazards. It was conducted to inform the World Bank as it scales up its support for climate change adaptation. The evaluation covers disaster risks caused by floods, droughts, earthquakes, cyclones, volcanic disruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. The report assesses Bank support for risk identification; risk reduction activities such as resilient infrastructure, buildings, and protective works; the integration of DRR into institutions, policy, and planning; preparedness activities, including support for early warning systems; and disaster risk finance.

The report provides the following recommendations:

• Incorporate DRR activities in regions and sectors and for hazards that exhibit significant coverage gaps;
• Identify and measure the effects of DRR activities on exposure and vulnerability to strengthen the development case to clients facing serious disaster risks;
• Integrate the needs of populations that are disproportionately vulnerable to disasters caused by natural hazards into DRR project targeting and design, implementation, and results reporting;
• In countries affected by serious natural hazards and fragility and conflict risks, identify and assess the ways in which hazards and conflict interrelate, and use this knowledge to inform country engagement and project design.