The National Disaster Risk Management Policy is a comprehensive document aiming to prevent, prepare, mitigate, respond, and recover from disasters to protect citizens and livelihoods. It provides the basis for a well-structured and coordinated national strategy to (i) enhance disaster preparedness for effective response; (ii) enhance coping capacities; (iii) reduce vulnerability to disaster and climatic shocks; (iv) strengthen community and infrastructure resilience to disaster and climatic shocks. Specific objectives of the document are (i) reduce disaster risk and strengthen climate change adaptation by integrating disaster risk reduction into development planning, building community and institutional capacity, improving risk communication and education, mobilizing innovative financing and insurance solutions, and strengthening multi-hazard early warning systems to protect communities, infrastructure, and the environment; (ii) strengthen disaster preparedness for effective response and for building back better during recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation by improving contingency planning, pre-positioning essential supplies, enhancing transport and logistics for humanitarian response, conducting post-disaster needs assessments to guide resilient and long-term recovery, integrating resilience into infrastructure planning, and strengthening human resource capacity in disaster preparedness; (iii) enhance Disaster Response mechanisms to provide life-saving measures to communities affected by disasters by building stakeholder capacity, enabling rapid assessments to guide immediate action, and establishing and maintaining emergency operations centers at national and sub-national levels; (iv) strengthen coordination mechanisms for harmonization of national efforts to effectively and efficiently implement disaster risk management programmes by improving operational guidelines, enhancing multi-sectoral planning and implementation at all levels, and building the capacity of focal point persons in line ministries and key stakeholders; (v) reduce inequalities in disaster risk management by integrating social inclusion into disaster risk reduction through mainstreaming gender, disability, and HIV/AIDS considerations, strengthening shock-responsive social protection, incorporating nutrition programming, and addressing the specific vulnerabilities of affected populations, including refugees and migrants; (vi) strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems conducting regular assessments of related programs and projects, and promoting research in disaster risk reduction, preparedness, and response to generate knowledge.
赞比亚 · 2024-01-01