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Shelter improvements and provision can assume a leading role in promoting both household livelihoods and community recovery in disaster affected areas. Livelihoods promotion in shelter sector...
Disasters have an enormous and significant negative impact on development of key sectors of economy like agriculture, infrastructure, housing, health, and education and above all the environment,...
Nepal and Pakistan face a triple challenge of political instability, weak governance and vulnerability to
climate change. Communities are highly vulnerable to floods, landslides and droughts...
Every year vulnerable communities across the country prepare themselves for the risk and reality of devastating floods of the type that affected 20 million people in 2010. Realising that the...
Disaster risk management (DRM), including disaster risk reduction (DRR), has received increased attention in Pakistan since the 2005 earthquake and the 2010 floods. In particular, development...
Pakistan has a unique water situation. It receives most of its rainfall during the
monsoons (July-August), with little rainfall in winter. The snowfall in its northern region
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