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Disaster Risk Management

While natural disasters are dangerous for all affected communities, the effects are particularly detrimental for rural communities that have poor resiliency to cope with the shocks and stress.

Natural disasters such as drought, flood and earthquakes pose serious threat to the sustainability of development efforts, life among populations living in disaster-prone countries.

CHF takes these wider environmental factors in consideration and helps affected communities build their livelihoods in ways that are prepared to withstand the effects of reoccurring disasters. By ensuring the resiliency of communities in the face of future effects, disaster risk management assures the sustainability of livelihoods.

Project Examples — Pakistan

Disaster risk management has been an important part of post-disaster recovery projects, including CHF’s Building Long-Term Sustainable Livelihoods and Reconstructing Infrastructure in Four Earthquake-Affected Union Councils of Abbottabad District. This project works not just to rehabilitate affected communities, but to improve upon their previous livelihoods by incorporating appropriate disaster risk reduction measures. CHF takes this approach to ensure that the effects of future disasters on project interventions and results will be reduced.