MDG |
Direct impacts |
Indirect impacts |
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
Damage to housing, service infrastructure, savings, productive assets and human losses reduce livelihood sustainability. |
Negative macroeconomic impacts including severe short-term fiscal impacts and wider, longer term impacts on growth, development and poverty reduction.
Forced sale of productive assets by vulnerable households pushes many into long-term poverty and increases inequality. |
2. Achieve universal primary education |
Damage to educational infrastructure.
Population displacement interrupts schooling. |
Increased need for child labour for household work, especially for girls.
Reduced household assets make schooling less affordable, girls probably affected most. |
3. Promote gender equality and empower women |
As men migrate to seek alternative work, women/girls bear an increased burden of care.
Women often bear the brunt of ‘coping’, e.g. by reducing food intake. |
Emergency programmes may reinforce power structures which marginalise women.
Domestic and sexual violence may rise in the wake of a disaster. |
4. Reduce child mortality |
Children are often most at risk, e.g. of drowning in floods.
Damage to health and water & sanitation infrastructure.
Injury and illness from disaster weakens children’s immune systems. |
Increased numbers of orphaned, abandoned and homeless children.
Household asset depletion makes clean water, food and medicine less affordable. |
5. Improve maternal health |
Pregnant woman are often at high risk from death/injury in disasters
Damage to health infrastructure.
Injury and illness from disaster can weaken women's health. |
Increased responsibilities and workloads create stress for surviving mothers.
Household asset depletion makes clean water, food and medicine less affordable. |
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases |
Poor health & nutrition following disasters weakens immunity.
Damage to health infrastructure.
Increased respiratory diseases associated with damp, dust and air pollution linked to disaster. |
Increased risk from communicative and vector borne diseases, e.g. malaria and diarrhoeal diseases following floods.
Impoverishment and displacement following disaster can increase exposure to disease, including HIV/AIDS, and disrupt health care. |
7. Ensure environmental sustainability |
Damage to key environmental resources and exacerbation of soil erosion or deforestation.
Damage to water management and other urban infrastructure.
Slum dwellers/people in temporary settlements often heavily affected. |
Disaster-induced migration to urban areas and damage to urban infrastructure increase the number of slum dwellers without access to basic services and exacerbate poverty. |
8. Develop a global partnership for development |
Impacts on programmes for small island developing states from tropical storms, tsunamis etc. |
Impacts on commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally. |
ALL MDGS |
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Reallocation of resources – including ODA – from development to relief and recovery. |