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The document is a formal reporting form detailing the environmental and social safeguards (ESS) compliance for a UNDP-led project in Zimbabwe. It classifies the project as Category B and confirms the disclosure of an Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF), which includes the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP).

The paper examines disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Zimbabwe through a livelihood-centred lens, analyzing how financial, natural, physical, human, and social assets influence vulnerability. It argues that traditional coping strategies are being undermined by increasing pressures, including climate change, and concludes that DRR must be integrated into all long-term sustainable development activities.