The more a country is able to reduce poverty and social deprivation, the more resilient it becomes, and the more likely it is to withstand or recover from a crisis with lower social, economic, and human loss. Emergency response is always more expensive than preparedness and risk mitigation. The framework cites four priorities: understanding disaster risk: strengthening disaster-risk governance to manage disaster risk; investing in disaster-risk-reduction for resilience; and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and “building back better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction. The framework relates direcdy to the UNFPA mandate.