Pounds of prevention, a disaster risk reduction story: focus on Mozambique

  Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/25850_mozambiquepoundsofprevention1.pdf

This edition travels to Mozambique and presents a cyclone early warning system that combines technology with community organization and mobilization, which enables people in Mozambique to be better prepared to take the right action at the right time every year when the cyclone season arrives and flooding threatens the countryside. The paper asserts that countless lives have been saved and that the resources spent mounting a humanitarian response have decreased.

Language(s): English

Tags: Natural hazards ; Early warning systems ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Tropical cyclone ; Flood ; Mozambique Add tag