These considerations would strengthen vulnerability scores, particularly where geographic isolation reduces access to services for high needs populations.
Where geographic isolation reduces access to services for high needs populations, additional measures of disadvantage including indigeneity could strengthen vulnerability scores.
Results of the surveys have been used to guide decisions about establishing feeding centres; in addition, the data have strengthened the vulnerability assessment system supported by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization here.
They need to address both their external vulnerability, by alleviating stressors threatening households, as well as their internal vulnerability, by strengthening their resilience or ability to cope.
Assessments of the latest major accident, or disaster in some scale, have the potential to guide safety system design improvements with focus on actively decreasing vulnerabilities and strengthening resilience in an evolutionary procedure.
In recent years, the awareness that developing secure software is intrinsically the most effective way to eliminate the software vulnerability, rather than strengthening the security system of the external environment, has increased.
The development of novel strengthening techniques to address the seismic vulnerability of masonry elements is gradually leading to simpler, faster and more effective strengthening strategies.
In the area of WASH, sub-national coordination mechanisms will be strengthened in high-vulnerability provinces through the elaboration of WASH contingency plans.
Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of policy measures differs widely.
Boosting trade flows between Russia and China, and strengthening political and security coordination, will reduce their vulnerability to outside interference and signal the emergence of a new centre of world power.
The current period of growth can be used to address corporate and bank vulnerabilities by building up capital and strengthening balance sheets.
