In line with the 2011-2013 humanitarian strategy, the focus of the Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan remains on assisting households to recover fully from recurrent shocks and hazards, through offering immediate and medium-term food and non-food interventions that seek to mitigate urgent needs while concurrently restoring livelihoods and building their resilience. Indeed the twin-track approaches (which include improving disaster risk reduction to withstand climate change) will require investment which has been particularly challenging, all the more because emergencies are taking place at a much more frequent rate. However, disaster risk reduction approaches have proved more efficient in the long term.
