in addressing systemic risk the national strategy also includes a variety of programmes and plans to combat poverty and enhance societal resilience to reduce the risk of disasters and cascading impacts communities at particular and persistent risk of disasters include communities located near rivers in close proximity to floodprone dams in lowlying areas prone to flooding during heavy rains along seismically active zones and in areas affected by conflict it has taken these as the foci for its national strategy and risk reduction measures addressing iwrm and the security context as well as the environmental climatic social cultural and political context