This Multi-Hazard Contingency Plan provides for reducing the risks related to the main hazards, such as floods, wind storm, fire, coastal erosion, landslide, epidemics, as a result of high vulnerability and the risk of economic, social and environmental losses. The Plan also provides for increasing and strengthen capacity for preparedness and response to the hazards. The overall goal of this national Multi-Hazard Contingency Plan is to ensure a coordinated, effective and functional preparedness and response mechanism, with the capacity to address all threats to human safety. Specific objectives and expected outcomes include: an effective and coordinated response to disasters at both national and local levels; strengthening an effective seasonal planning to improve readiness for response; reducing suffering among the affected communities by addressing the immediate and live-saving needs with special focus on the most vulnerable groups; developing sectorial response plans and identify key gaps in the humanitarian system; providing an effective forum for collaboration between Government and aid agencies in responding to emergencies caused by disasters; ensuring validated processes and procedures for overall preparedness and response. The Plan concerns the following topic: risk overview and details for each of the hazards analysed; humanitarian impacts, priority needs and planning assumptions for each of the hazards analysed; early warning system and preparedness for response; priority response activities including: strengthening general food distribution, improving primary health care services including the management of non-communicable diseases, ensuring safe and equitable access to a sufficient quantity of water for drinking, cooking and personal and domestic hygiene; roles and responsibilities of Government coordination structures. The Plan includes the following sector priority response plans: 1) shelter and non-food items response plan, to address issues leading to post disaster recovery plans execution and to provide the affected populations during disasters with non-food items and temporary shelter kits; 2) food security and nutrition response plan, to meet the immediate food needs of the disaster affected people, and avoid nutritional deterioration among the affected populations, with emergency food distribution; 3) health response plan, to ensure essential medical coverage to affected people by providing medicine and immediate mobilisation of human resource, and management of communicable diseases; 4) logistic response plan, to ensure necessary support to other sectors for effective response to those affected by disaster; 5) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene response plan, to ensure provision of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, solid and liquid waste management and vector control; 6) education response plan, to ensure continuous learning of the affected children during an emergency; 7) protection response plan, to ensure protection of rights guaranteed by the International Human Rights Law, International Human Laws and National Laws during an emergency, in particular for the most vulnerable in the community, such as women, children, minorities, disable.
ليبريا · 2021-11-01