Australian Development Gateway

The Australian Development Gateway (ADG) strives to support members of the development community in their efforts to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region. The site has been created with participation from members of government, private, academia and non-government organisations. User feedback mechanisms have been incorporated to guide future directions of the site. The site is optimised for low bandwidth access to enable the widest participation throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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The Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction (CDRR) diagram (pdf 65kb)

The Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction (CDRR) diagram shows that effective Risk Reduction for disaster situations, very much depends on the following four inter-related factors:
- Security and good governance
- Economic and social development, with a strong emphasis on Poverty Reduction
- Environmental Sustainability, and what increasingly seems to be called Climate Change Adaptability (CCA)
- Various Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) initiatives

 

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