Organizing partners:

- Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan (Lead Organizer)
- Planning & Development Division, Govt. of Pakistan.
- Other Non-governmental Organizations

Pakistan is facing natural disasters since its inception. The different kinds of disasters like; floods, earthquakes and droughts. The flood in 1972, was a most destructive and catastrophic that made homeless more than five millions people. Then in 2010,the severity of this natural calamity was more than in the past. One fourth part of Pakistan was effected by this flood and more than ten million people remained homeless. The south part of the country, which is agriculture based and has poor people, faced its worst history. In 2005, earthquake in northern areas hit the vast population, almost a million people died and five million lost their homes, properties and business. These disasters effect every tier of life as economic, social, financial and agricultural. Pakistan's economy that was already in worst conditions, has become poorer than the past. The growth of Pakistan's economy in 2006-2007 was almost 6% annually, but now it is only on 3%. The flood of 2010 has severally smashed the agriculture sector which is back bone of Pakistan. More than 60% population of the country depends upon agriculture sector. The exports like textile goods, wheat and fruits etc of the country are also directly attached with this sector. So that industrial sector too has been gone one step back instead of ahead. The terrible economic and social consequences of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan followed by unprecedented floods in 2010 demonstrate the frequency of natural disasters, especially over the last decade.

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