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communities to mitigate, respond and resist the impact of a hazard. Absence of safety
nets and limited access to assets shrinks the people‟s flexibility to sustain the brunt of
disasters. The poor living in hazard-prone areas are badly exposed to disaster affects
in one way or the other.
e. Lack of Institutional Capacity to Deal with Disaster Risk Reduction. Institutional
capacity of different government departments/agencies is too limited to deal with
disasters, particularly at district and local levels. Lack of coordination of these agencies
at provincial/federal level and non effective early warning system are the main grey
areas. There is a lack of focus on preparedness because of the capacity and scarcity
of resources. All these factors increase the vulnerability of local population to different
disasters.
f. Climate Change and its Impact. Global warming causes damage to the natural
environment. The impact includes losses in biodiversity, rise in the sea level, frequent
cyclones, drought and abnormal shifts in the weather pattern. As a result, increased
flooding changes the freshwater supply and enhances severe weather events. This can
also lead to the alteration of forest and crop yields.