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When Disasters are Slow not Sudden: Poverty, Hunger, Drought, Disease and the Failure of Development

1 November 2006 12:30-14:00 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

  • The second meeting in this series on 'Disaster and Development' promoted a discussion of countries where chronic problems such as poverty, disease, hunger and drought are endemic, and of poverty issues more generally as factors in disaster vulnerability.

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    Speakers:
    Terry Jeggle    , UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)
    Ken Westgate, Regional Disaster Reduction Advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Nairobi.
    Chair:
    Tony Baldry MP    , Vice-Chair, APGOOD

     

  • An ODI, All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development, Development Studies Association and International Strategy for Disaster Reduction public event in the Disasters and Development: From relief to preparedness and risk reduction series.

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