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Social Vulnerability, Sustainable Livelihoods and Disasters: Integrating Vulnerability Analysis into Development and Humanitarian Programming

This report, prepared for DFID’s Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Department and Sustainable Livelihoods Support Office, examines the conceptual and practical links between social vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods, and disaster risk reduction. Its central argument is that effective disaster preparedness cannot be separated from mainstream development work, and that vulnerability analysis offers a practical bridge between humanitarian

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El Salvador, Program for Prevention and Mitigation of Flood Disasters in the Lower Lempa River Basin

This case study, developed under the ProVention Consortium’s Community Risk Assessment and Action Planning project, examines a flood disaster risk reduction and sustainable development initiative carried out in the Lower Lempa River Valley of El Salvador between 2000 and 2001. Commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and financed by the Inter-American

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Zambian Red Cross Society, Vulnerability Capacity Assessment: Sinazongwe District

In 2003, a thorough and well-designed assessment was carried out in Sinazongwe, a district in southern Zambia. The CRA team was composed of staff from the regional IFRC delegation, the Zambian Red Cross Society (ZRCS) and district and local government officials. The purpose of the study was to assist ZRCS in mapping out hazards, vulnerabilities

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Community Risk Assessment Toolkit

The ProVention Consortium in its Community Risk Assessment Toolkit has collected and analysed 35 CRA case studies from Asia, Latin America, Africa and Small Island Developing States. Key findings were: Partnerships between NGOs and local government enhance the effectiveness of the assessment and action planning process (see case study 1 ). Multi-hazard approaches are feasible

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