Overall goal

Strengthen community resilience and institutional capacity to deliver comprehensive disaster management to reduce the impact of disasters

Strategies:

The Disaster Management Directorate will focus on minimizing community vulnerability and risk to disasters, avoiding or limiting the adverse impacts of disasters, within the broad context of sustainable development

1. Predict and prepare for effective, timely and appropriate response to man-made and natural disasters
2. Build the capacities of communities to respond, mitigate and recover from disasters.
3. Respond effectively and timely to all disasters affecting the most vulnerable households
4. Develop and implement appropriate food security and environment management interventions for the vulnerable communities
5. Assisting families who are scattered, separated and without news in times of disasters and in specific social cases through an efficient and operational RFL service

Programs:

1. Preparedness and Response
2. Disaster Risk Reduction
3. Restoration of family lins/Tracing
4. Climate Change and and Environmental Management
5. Recovery

Key Activities:

1. Conduct a national vulnerability capacity assessment -Continue with risk mapping Carry out contingency planning -Sensitize communities to prepare for disasters Develop an integrated training manual for disaster management
2. Scale up disaster management related skills and information transfer to community level -Install early warning systems in disaster vulnerable areas
3. Improve the communication systems -Procure adequate relief stock at national and regional stores -Strengthen partnerships and networks with government at all levels and other stakeholders in disaster management -Disseminate safe access model and URCS Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
4. Review URCS disaster management Policy -Develop, design and expand relevant community based disaster management (risk reduction) interventions/projects based on VCA to 10 new branches -Improve/quicken disaster assessment procedures
5. Provide relief assistance to persons affected by disasters
6. Promote food security in hard hit communities
7. Develop and adopt environment management strategy -Conduct community environmental management education and activities -Promote environmental management initiatives -Enhance the capacity of staff and volunteers to provide Restoring Family Links services
8. Enhance the capacity of staff and volunteers to provide Restoring Family Links services