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This report presents an assessment of Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector disaster risk and management capacity. The findings indicate that Zimbabwe is highly exposed to agricultural risks and has limited capacity to manage risk at various levels.
This document is the result of a consultation sponsored by UNDP on behalf of the Directorate General of Civil Security, within the framework of the program entitled: “Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction in policies to reduce poverty in the Union of the Comoros" funded by the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).
Describes the main axes, the program components and the short and medium-term strategic actions for disaster risk reduction. The main goal is to propose coherent priority actions in the short and medium term in order to operationalize the National DRR strategy. It includes a timetable and an order of execution of the various actions.
This report for SADC summarizes the findings of the gender analysis of the SADC Secretariat and member states.
The development objective of the Strengthening DRR Coordination, Planning and Policy Advisory Capacity of SADC for Southern Africa is to strengthen the disaster resilience of Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states through regional collaboration and improved coordination, planning, policy advisory and knowledge dissemination capacity of SADC.
The study focuses on the economy of the United Republic of Tanzania. We model the spatial and temporal dynamics of production, trade, and consumption, and study how the resulting supply-chain flows depend on the transportation network.
This Coastal Management Plan consolidates risk information and provides a framework for its use for coastal management, adaptation, and risk management. It aims to help maintain and protect the coastal zone to reduce coastal risk, support healthy ecosystems, and enable sustainable coastal economic development.
The objective of this manual is to improve "the implementation of cyclonic alert system in Madagascar, to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the different entities at all levels and at different phases of the cyclonic alert system mechanism, and to propose the characteristics of the necessary materials relating thereto”.
This is the second report for the Programme ‘Building Disaster Resilience to Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities’.
This disaster risk profile for Seychelles seeks to provide a basis for the future implementation of disaster risk financing through the improved understanding of disaster risks.