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This rapid literature review finds that lessons drawn from disaster resilience programmes in Pakistan are focused on the best ways to coordinate between different resilience work in different sectors. This can be difficult because of the number of NGOs

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This current document of Monsoon Contingency Plan 2021 gives a detailed view of the hazards profile of all the districts' vulnerabilities and risk and its indexed, available and deployed resources, mapping of public and private sector machinery, mechanism

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This handbook provides an overview of natural hazards, climate change susceptibility, disaster management and response in Pakistan. It provides an analysis of government disaster plans and policies and community preparedness.
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The focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 38) is the role of the individual in relation to crises and the benefits of public involvement in emergency planning. We discuss how recovery reinstates preparedness, while renewal enhances resilience

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This publication is a performance evaluation of the Building Disaster Resilience in Pakistan (BDRP) program. Poverty in Pakistan is concentrated in rural areas where 70% of the population lives. Based on World Bank’s poverty headcount analysis, at US$1.25

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This paper reviews the evidence on the inclusion of refugees in government-led social protection responses to Covid-19 in the Republic of Congo and Colombia and the alignment or integration of international humanitarian and development actors’ cash

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This study analyzes responses to past natural disasters in four countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan. Of 178 hazardous events reported in the four countries during the 10 years covered by this study (2009–19), 126 were

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This paper discusses how coastal communities are increasingly at risk from the negative impacts of climate change, including more intense storms, floods, coastal erosion, and sea intrusion. Socioeconomic and political factors make people vulnerable to

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