Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Since 2015, the international community’s commitment to advancing disaster-resilient infrastructure has been reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 9 (build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation), global target D of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services), and the Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment of the Group of Twenty (G20) countries, among others. But while upstream architecture has an important role in setting goals and providing a normative framework for resilience building, in many DMCs, greater emphasis must be placed on how they can attain the resilience objective. This publication, intended for DMC policy makers and practitioners, accordingly explores opportunities to strengthen infrastructure resilience through practical solutions, and thus unlock significant co-benefits. Approaches to addressing the attendant challenges, beyond access to finance, are explored here. These include risk assessment, investment appraisal, operation and maintenance across the life cycle of the infrastructure asset, and overarching ways of achieving system-wide resilience objectives and implementing effective governance models.