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The 20th century accounts for the safety of communities and human settlements in northern areas of Pakistan, Ministerial Working Group (MWG) of Ministry of Housing and Works (MOH&W) to generate Ministerial DRR based Housing Strategy. The systematic study focuses on six major objectives deducted from parallel guidelines from Hugo Framework of Action (HFA 2005-2015) as a standard and reference to the commitment made by 160 such countries. The data analysis has been conducted for these important objectives on individual basis: exploring Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) based guidelines; secondly to find out guiding principles from local and global perspectives for planning standards; thirdly to identify DRR based guidelines for safe planning and architectural designing; fourthly making community Disaster Resilient; fifthly safeguarding our culture and structures in villages, towns, cities & regions and finally to establish hierarchy of DRR Units to safeguard housing schemes and projects through DRR strategies and experts. The research paper outlines the respective objectives and strategic approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and resilience within the broader frame to achieve safety for better life in the spectrums of social, economic cultural and environmental aspects within the commitments of HFA. Concrete actions taken at national and ministerial levels through National Engineering Services in Pakistan (NESPAK) and MOH&W have been appreciated but at the same time gaps are identified regarding Architectural and Urban Planning importance in the Earthquake Seismic Codes of Pakistan.

Yasmeen Abid Maan, Maryam Jamil, Munazzah Akhtar. (2021) Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Housing Strategies in Pakistan, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-06, Issue-1.
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