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This report discusses how creating cutting-edge disaster risk management tools, growing applied knowledge, and deepening financial protections not only strengthens Brazil’s ability to mitigate smaller-scale, recurrent disasters at the local level, but also helps to build urban resilience throughout the country. Disaster risk identification and institutional and community-level capacity building helps countries to manage preparedness and post-disaster efforts more effectively at both the national and local levels. 

To better understand the economic volume of the chronic disasters, the Government of Brazil with support from the World Bank, undertook a study which revealed that year after year, the country is losing an estimated 1 billion dollars Brazilian reais per month (approximately US175 million dollars) from over 30,000 disaster events. This was realized through data collected by the National Civil Defense from 1994-2019, which highlighted human and economic impacts of previous disasters, and helped the government to better identify the disaster risk profile of the country. Despite recent progress in disaster risk management (DRM), governments, such as Brazil with chronic and constant disasters, are in need of capacity building to develop and access relevant knowledge necessary to create strategic plans, prioritize actions, and secure essential funding to address disasters, thereby reducing the social impacts of disaster events, including health, livelihoods, and access to basic services.