The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (October 2012)
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) was established in September 2006 as a global partnership of the World Bank, United Nations agencies and bilateral donors, located in World Bank headquarters in Washington DC. Its missions are (a) to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in country development strategies, and (b) to foster and strengthen global and regional cooperation in these areas under the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction system. The World Bank plays many roles in GFDRR as founder, chair of the governing body, financial contributor, trustee of the donor trust funds supporting the program, host of the GFDRR Secretariat, and implementing agency of regional and country-level activities.  [BACK]

The ProVention Consortium (July 2006)
The ProVention Consortium was created in February 2000 to reduce the social, economic and environmental impacts of natural disasters on vulnerable populations in developing countries. The IEG review found that ProVention is a relevant and innovative program. Its record in bringing about change at the global and country level in a relatively short amount of time has been impressive. ProVention was largely successful in achieving its objectives of networking, advocating, implementing activities, and disseminating research findings and best practices. But its informal governance structure, which ProVention established at the outset and which has contributed to its flexibility, has also come at a cost in terms of accountability. [BACK]