This Kakamega County Emergency Operation Plan sets out the emergency preparedness and response arrangements for the county, including the process for coordination of relevant stakeholder, decision-makers and officials, emergency first responders, local Non-governmental organisations, the private sector, and community members. This Operation Plan, recognising that Disaster Risk Management (DRM) is a sustainable development issue, aims at achieving the following objectives: establishing a comprehensive multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional and an all-hazards framework for the effective management of emergency response at the county level; defining key roles and responsibilities for emergency management functions; providing a set of preparedness concepts and principles that can be applied in responding to any hazard and at any level; strengthening standardised resource management procedures that enable coordination among different sub-county jurisdictions or organisations; integration of the Plan with the early warning systems. The Plan identifies the following six areas of intervention for functional emergency response: rescue and environment, security, health, humanitarian services, essential infrastructure and services, emergency management.
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