Boosting rural areas’ resilience to conflicts and disasters

This document asserts that rebuilding and creating concrete opportunities for rural livelihoods is a priority in crisis response and preparedness as disasters and conflicts have immediate and long term impacts on rural employment. Several reasons for actions as well as policy options are given. It further asserts ILO's role in supporting member States to include the promotion of productive employment, decent work and income opportunities in their disaster risk-reduction/recovery measures and in their conflict prevention, reconstruction and recovery programmes.