Afghanistan : Strategic National Action Plan (SNAP) for disaster risk reduction : towards peace and stable development / Government of the Islamic of Afghanistan.

Cover title.
“March 2011”.
“Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority”—at head of title.

“Includes bibliography”—(pages 80-83).

Contents: Figures and tables—Acronyms and abbreviations—Executive summary—I. Introduction—II. The Afghanistan context—III. Status of implementation : HFA priorities for action—IV. Strategic objectives, priority programmes/projects and respective outputs : the action plan—V. Implementation issues—VI. Way forward—Bibliography—Annexes.

Summary: “The volatile context of Afghanistan presents tremendous challenges to achieving peace and resilient development in the country. As it deals with reconstruction and recovery, Afghanistan is still constantly faced by emergencies, conflict and disasters. - These pose a constant threat to any plan and the Millennium Development Goals. The Afghan people have endured a series of setbacks in the last three decades. Since 2001, the Afghan government, with support from the international community has been struggling to bring normalcy to the lives of men, women and children and rebuild society and its…”—(page 8).

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