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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