“The low-income and disadvantaged communities, residing in the river basins of the country/region, are open to increasing economic risks, besides facing the hard consequences of natural disasters and climate change. Most of the rivers in the country are snow-fed and flow down from north to south with a high velocity and since the land hosts a complex geographical structure, the seasonal monsoons cause enormous pressure on the environment, leading to unexpected natural disasters every year, especially in the proposed region. Such events have caused severe damage to human life, settlement patterns, local environment and, above all, to the economic sustainability of the river-basin communities. Floods and landslides have spoiled agricultural land, destroyed livestock, displaced biodiversity, reduced productive human health and demolished habitation. These unfortunate periodical incidents increase the vulnerability of poor communities, fracturing their sources of income and undermining their sustainability practices. Further to this, these communities, time and again, adopt unsustainable income-generation activities which are characterized by inadequate planning, inaccessible markets, lack of organizational skills and poor coping strategies. Hence, a holistic intervention is required, in which disaster preparedness is combined with a mechanism that sustains and increases livelihood opportunities for the communities living in the river basin.”
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