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The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), in collaboration with UNESCO, is developing a comprehensive plan to make schools safer, especially in areas vulnerable to floods and earthquakes...
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'...
Now, when the next floods come, the families will stay safe on their roofs along with their household goods and food rations. This effort is part of the Heritage Foundation’s goal to find solutions for disaster-risk reduction and resistance for communities, writes Yasmeen Lari for the Express Tribune...
'Pakistan faces climate impacts which are not only happening in real time but in a widely diverse pattern – ranging from extreme events such as cyclones, glacial melting and floods as well as indirect impacts such as droughts'...
School Safety Programme Coordinator Zulfiqar Ali recommends short-term and long-term solutions to be taken to ensure greater safety of schools located in the hazard-prone mountainous region, reports the Express tribune...
Japan has agreed to provide a modern 'warning system' to Pakistan which will enhance the country’s capacity for early flood forecast, said chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Dr Zafar Iqbal Qadir on Saturday...
'The government needs to prioritise disaster risk reduction and invest in systems today to reduce the cost of damage in the future,' said Adviser on Disaster Risk Reduction, OXFAM, Javeria Afzal...
Stating that the federal capital falls on the most active fault line with the seismic hazard varying from sector to sector, a new research paper calls for an updated building code to avoid human and material damages...
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