Governments’ Policy Response to Drought in Eswatini and Lesotho: A Systematic Review of the Characteristics, Comprehensiveness, and Quality of Existing Policies to Improve Community Resilience to Drought Hazards
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Inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Included
Excluded
Government documents such as policies and policy reports, action plans, development plans, drought response plans, strategies, and acts of parliament that relate to disaster resilience
Government documents that do not relate to the subject
Documents approved by a government entity
Unapproved documents or those approved by nongovernment entities and/or not approved on behalf of government
Documents published after 1 January 1980
Documents published before 1980
Documents not classified as government secrets
Government-classified documents
Documents from Lesotho or Eswatini
Government documents from geographical jurisdictions beyond Lesotho and Eswatini
Documents written in English
Documents written in languages other than English
Both peer- and nonpeer-reviewed literature
Reviews, editorials, letters to editors, opinion pieces, and protocols
