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This Action Plan was prepared in preparation for the Workshop on National Platforms at the International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) in Davos, Switzerland, in August of 2008. This Action Plan includes a "problem tree", as well as information

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This Statement of Common Understanding was prepared in preparation for the Workshop on National Platforms at the International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) in Davos, Switzerland, in August of 2008. In 2001, the UN Office for the Coordination of

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This publication points out the vital nexus between women’s experiences of natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and how they can come together to make whole communities strong and sustainable. It also

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The book describes a history of IFAS formation, its structural organizations in the founder-countries and their activities for 10 years. There are all materials of the sessions of the Heads of the states in the various cities of Central Asia, the

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This book gives a brief description of the Aral sea until 1960 when the sea started dying out. For the first time it presents the chronological study, development and attempts made in the conservation and rehabilitation of the Aral sea.

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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

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A persistent multi-year drought in Central and Southwest Asia has affected close to 60 million people as of November 2001. Chronic political instability in many parts of this region and the recent military action in Afghanistan have further complicated

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Program of concrete Actions on improvement of ecological, social and economic conditions in Aral Sea Basin for the period 2003-2010 (ASBP-2), initiated by Heads of the Central Asia countries has been authorized on August, 28, 2003. This Program was

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