The institution recognizes that innovative mechanisms are needed to reach the underserved poor and that the key is to involve users in selecting service options that they want and are willing to pay for, and to give providers incentives to expand and manage services efficiently. Over the last two decades, the number and scale of natural and technological disasters has increased greatly. At any one time, some natural disaster has just struck or is about to strike somewhere in the world, taking a toll of human and material losses. What makes the event a disaster is its impact on vulnerable structures like buildings and infrastructures. Thus, natural disasters have a human, social and economic impact that depend very much upon where the natural event strikes.
Populated areas are most vulnerable to damage and loss through natural disasters.
Increased vulnerability has required that natural disaster management be at the heart of economic and social development policy of disaster prone countries. To help lessen the impact we need safer buildings built in areas out of harms way and more advanced warning systems.