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Humanitarian aid: European perspective

Source(s): Baltic Course, the, Cordex Media sia
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The Baltic Course comments on the changes in today's "humanitarian landscape" and has Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, describing challenges and priorities for the European humanitarian actions.

She talks about the need to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian aid, "We have to be better prepared and more anticipative in the face of humanitarian disasters. This is the reason the strengthening of EU disaster preparedness and response capacity is one of Commissioner’s top policy priorities."

"As disasters can wipe out in a blip billions of Euros of development aid projects, we need to invest more in adaptation to climate change and in Disaster Risk Reduction strategies. As we face more situations of fragility and recovery we need to better link relief, rehabilitation and development," the Commissioner continues.

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Themes Climate change Governance Economics of DRR Disaster risk management
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