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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,...
"Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Northern Pakistan have caused disproportionate levels of extreme flooding and unprecedented flood losses across the entire Indus River basin. Extensive land...
"GFDRR support to Pakistan started in 2006. Key entry points included the Damage and Needs Assessment and provision of immediate rescue equipment to aid the Government response to the 2005...
"Technical advancement and scientific improvements in early warning system for example have made significant progress in past few years particularly in developing countries like Pakistan....
The project is committed to mitigating the vulnerability
in the face of disasters in the communities of the riskprone
Chail Valley (Swat) through investment in
disaster...
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family,
including food, clothing, and housing and medical care and necessary...
The authors would first and foremost like to thank the many IDPs, Afghan refugees and residents of Peshawar who generously gave their time to be interviewed for this study, as well as key...
Migration has long played a key role in shaping the size and distribution of the population of
Pakistan. Since the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947, and up to recent and
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Throughout the history floods have caused major damages to the mankind not only in terms of human life, but also complete loss of livelihoods and destruction of infrastructure. According to Munich...
"An estimated five million people have been displaced by conflict, sectarian violence and wide-spread human
rights abuses in the north-west as a whole since 2004. Disaster-induced...