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Linking disaster risk reduction and poverty reduction: good practices and lessons learned
This publication seeks to highlight initiatives that have successfully linked poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in various parts of the world. It features several projects and initiatives that show how DRR can be integrated into poverty reduction (or vice-versa) to help reduce the vulnerability of the poor and protect their livelihoods and development gains.- Date:
- 2008
- Pages:
- 75 p.
- Sources:
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- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Keywords
- Themes:
- Civil Society/NGOs, Community-based DRR, Economics of DRR
- Hazards:
- Drought, Flood
- Countries:
- Bangladesh, Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Tajikistan
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The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will take place in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2013.
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