East Africa must prepare to survive

Source(s): Guardian, the (UK)
by Flickr user Oxfam International, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfam/5933452816/

by Flickr user Oxfam International, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfam/5933452816/

The east Africa crisis throws the importance of disaster risk reduction measures into sharp relief, writes the Guardian. "When it comes to natural disasters, and their very unnatural impact on poor people, prevention is better than cure."

As argued in a new paper by Oxfam's humanitarian policy adviser, Debbie Hillier, we know far more than we used to about how to do this preventive work (known in development jargon as disaster risk reduction, or DRR) and how much more cost effective it is than reacting after disaster has struck, it continues.

Attachments

View full story , English

Explore further

Hazards Drought
Share this

Please note: Content is displayed as last posted by a PreventionWeb community member or editor. The views expressed therein are not necessarily those of UNDRR, PreventionWeb, or its sponsors. See our terms of use

Is this page useful?

Yes No Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).