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Disasters and Development. Tariq Rafique National Project Manager One-UN DRM Programme. Context. Disaster Response and the Concept of Mitigation Response versus Mitigation Case of Pakistan: Period: 1998-2008 Total: 190 billion Pak Rupees (Approx. US$ 2.34 billion)
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Disasters and Development Tariq Rafique National Project Manager One-UN DRM Programme
Context • Disaster Response and the Concept of Mitigation • Response versus Mitigation • Case of Pakistan: • Period: 1998-2008 • Total: 190 billion Pak Rupees (Approx. US$ 2.34 billion) • Response: 171 billion Pak Rupees • Preparedness: 18.9 billion Pak Rupees
Disaster-Development Relationship • Disasters Hamper Development • Development Increases Vulnerabilities • Development Reduces Vulnerabilities • Disasters Provide Development Opportunities
Making Disaster a Development Concern • Planning process and HVRA • Urban Planning • Institutional Development • Political Commitment
DRR Mainstreaming into Development • One-UN DRM Programme • Objective • Ministries • Donors • Technical organizations • Implementation Strategy
“Entrenched attitudes and institutional separatism in government and aid agency circles, coupled with the general stagnation in budgets, have hindered the two worlds of disasters and development from drawing together. Closer integration is beginning, but we still have a very long way to go”. - John Twigg