Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2025: Resilience Pays: Financing and Investing for our Future

Disaster risk is increasing as more frequent and intense hazard events, unsafe urbanization and ineffective development, put more people and assets in harm’s way. Featuring case studies from Practical Action’s work on Index-based Flood Insurance in Nepal and Local Resilience Agents in Bangladesh, the Global Assessment Report 2025 highlights how smarter investments can reset the destructive cycle of disasters, debt, un-insurability and humanitarian need that threatens a climate-changed world.