Together, we formed a working group to address security and health issues, which contributed to disaster assessment and identified areas of work to be rolled out.
Big and Benevolent 99 Ranch and Tawa Supermarkets provide 15 scholarships annually, and contributed to disaster relief after the Sichuan Province earthquake of 2008.
Risk communication practices need to be effective to contribute to disaster reduction, but their impact is rarely evaluated.
These districts do not have independent decision makers on disaster risk management, and they have strong differences among them that can be captured by this evaluation in order to focus efforts on different aspects that contribute to disaster risk.
Participants acknowledged the need to ensure that DRM and reduction legislation is supported through operational sector legislation and pointed out the need to take stock of sector legislation and policies that contribute to disaster risk reduction.
Moreover, past disaster events evidence that these POS have a significant potential to contribute to disaster management as a primary place to rescue and for shelters, as an agent of recovery, to provide essential life support and potential for adaptive response.
The results of their analysis will not only contribute to the geomorphic development in humid and active tectonic region such as Taiwan but also contribute to disaster prevention by giving good fundamental guidance as to when to issue high risk alerts for the occurrence of landslides and/or debris flow.
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Even fewer, 14%, said they had contributed to disaster relief, although donations typically tend to be slow in the early days after a devastating storm or earthquake, the researchers noted.
Finally, each sector evaluation examines the extent to which UNICEF has contributed to disaster preparedness and risk mitigation efforts.
