This policy brief aims to enhance understanding of the key features of planning, developing, operating, and maintaining resilient and inclusive infrastructure. This brief highlights the gaps in current approaches to infrastructure development and suggests potential pathways to bridging these gaps.

This policy brief makes the following recommendations:

• Build a comprehensive, multi-hazard understanding of risk while developing infrastructure.
• Strengthen risk governance.
• Invest in resilience
• Adopt an evidence-based, cross-sectoral approach to infrastructure development to strengthen preparedness and response and recovery mechanisms