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Linking disaster risk reduction and poverty reduction: good practices and lessons learned

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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Publication Year
2008
Number of pages
75 p.

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.

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