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Georgia
is a disaster-prone country, suffering frequent occurrences of
earthquakes, floods, droughts, landslides and avalanches. The
country’s current fragile social, political and economic
environment, rapid urbanization, concentration of improperly maintained
technological infrastructure increase level of vulnerability and
largely contribute to the severe impact of disasters. Institutional
disaster management capacities are limited in terms of disaster
preparedness, prevention and mitigation. The system does not have
the resources to respond to even small and medium scale disasters.
The Georgian government, United Nations, various international
organisations and donor countries are currently exerting their
efforts to build sustainable national disaster management capacities.
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