By Rashme Sehgal

Oxfam's latest report, 'Rethinking Disasters', recommends the integration of disaster risk reduction into sustainable development policies and planning, as well as strengthening institutions that help communities build greater resilience to disasters More...

'Rethinking Disasters', a new report by the international aid agency Oxfam, says political inaction, poor decisions and bad management have turned South Asia into the world’s most disaster-prone region More...

The UNDP's 'Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development' cautions that natural disasters put an enormous strain on development and are a serious threat to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the target of halving extreme poverty by 2015 More...