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Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development
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Asia
From Relief to Recovery - The Gujarat Experience
From Relief to Recovery - The Gujarat Experience Disasters offer unique, if transient, opportunities for change. Relief efforts in a disaster scenario can serve not only to reverse losses but to spearhead long-term sustainable recovery. As the United Nations agency mandated since 1998 with responsibility for disaster management, prevention and vulnerability reduction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) viewed its intervention in Gujarat, following the devastating earthquake of January 2001, as an entry point for long-term sustainable development. (...)

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UNDP Gujarat Update 2003

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Reports on Lessons Learnt Workshops on Floods & Landslides - May 2003, Sri Lanka
Reports on Lessons Learnt Workshops - Fllods and Landslides, May 2003 5 Publications on:
Report on Lessons Learnt Workshop.
Floods and Landslides, May 2003
Hambantota District - Jan. 9, 2004
Galle District, Hikkaduwa - Oct. 24, 2003
Kalutara District - May 18, 2004
Matara District, Weligama - Feb. 13, 2004
Ratnapura District - Jan 23, 2004



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