Figure
1. Percentage of countries incorporating risk reduction
in sustainble development plans and actions
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Figure
1 shows an encouraging indication of disaster risk reduction
being integrated into development plans. However, a significant
number of countries (32% of the reports) neither stated nor denied
this integration process, which indicates the need to strengthen
the fundamental links between disaster risk reduction and development.
In addition,
a number of good practices relating disaster risk reduction
to development activities were provided by countries like Comoros,
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Hungary, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Romania,
South Africa and Uganda. While they are expressed in different
specifications, disaster risk reduction is part of their Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), Common Country Assessments
(CCAs), United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAFs)
and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the Djibouti experience
for instance, disaster risk reduction was identified as a priority
issue in their CCA, included in the PRSP and considered as
a cross-cutting issue in the UNDAF.
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