In most countries in the Americas, risk reduction activities are funded by the regular budgets of the various governmental agencies involved, which, although they may not have specific budget categories for risk reduction, do have lines from which they can finance these activities. In the health sector, for example, there are funds for infrastructure and maintenance, as well as income that some establishments generate for themselves and that can be invested to protect health services. Unlike disaster response funds, these development funds can be used to improve the safety of facilities that have not yet been damaged.