Part I: Risk assessment review
Risk assessments were sourced from the World Bank, the Asia Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and PreventionWeb—major international financial institutions, organizations, and regional banks that fund and produce risk assessments. The majority of assessments (~47%) were sourced from the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository45, in part because the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)46—a global partnership between the World Bank, the United Nations, and other major donors—is one of the central funders and producers of risk information. Since 2010, GFDRR has funded at least 80 disaster risk assessments at the regional, national, or subnational levels around the world, which are publicly available in the official open-access repository and widely used to inform the development and disaster literature47,48. The Asia Development Bank, PreventionWeb, and Inter-American Development Bank accounted for ~31%, ~13%, and ~7% of the risk assessments in our dataset, respectively. The Inter-American Development Bank is an international financial institution that focuses on development finance in Latin America and the…
