Pakistan: Situation in flood-hit areas to grow worse in winter unless aid is provided

In a statement, the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) calls donors to "place disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation principles at the heart of their strategies for both relief and development, in line with the Global Platform on Risk Reduction, including allocating at least 10 per cent of humanitarian and recovery spending to DRR," according to the Express Tribune. The statement said there was a need for at least $27m to be immediately invested in disaster risk reduction programmes, followed by long term investment of at least one per cent of national development funding, sustained by increased tax revenues.