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AU - Suarez, Pablo
AU - Lotsch, Alexander
AU - Storey, Kelvin
AU - Suarez, Pablo
AU - Givah, Precious
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HIV/AIDS, Climate Change And Disaster Management
Challenges For Institutions In Malawi
PB - The World Bank
KW - AIDS pandemic
KW - Climate Change
KW - Climate change
KW - Demand for services
KW - Disaster preparedness
KW - Disasters
KW - Environment
KW - HIV AIDS
KW - Hazard Risk Management
KW - Health Monitoring & Evaluation
KW - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW - Policy research
KW - Policy research working paper
KW - Population Policies
KW - Progress
KW - Urban Development
KW - Urban development
KW - Vulnerability
PY - 2008
N2 - Southern African institutions involved in disaster management face two major new threats: the HIV/AIDS pandemic (eroding organizational capacity and increasing vulnerability of the population), and climate change (higher risk of extreme events and disasters). Analyzing the combined effects of these two threats on six disaster-related institutions in Malawi, the authors find evidence of a growing gap between demand for their services and capacity to satisfy that demand. HIV/AIDS leads to staff attrition, high vacancy rates, absenteeism, increased workload and other negative effects enhanced by human resources policies and financial limitations. Many necessary tasks cannot be carried out adequately with constraints such as the 42 percent vacancy rate in the Department of Poverty and Disaster Management Affairs, or the reduction of rainfall stations operated by the Meteorological Service from over 800 in 1988 to just 135 in 2006. The authors highlight implications of declining organizational capacity for climate change adaptation, and formulate recommendations
CY - Washington, D.C
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -