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B. DRM Mainstreaming
Medium-term needs
Separate policies for urban and rural
recovery
Community Based Disaster Risk
Management (CBDRM)
Non structural measures to incorporate
any and structural measures
Evacuation Strategy
Long-term needs
Safety culture
C. Institutional Reform
Medium term needs
DDPM’s leadership and capacity
enhancement
Institutionalization/materialization of
mechanism stated in the DPM Act
and Plan
Engagement of grass-roots and
private sector organizations
Integrated coordination system
Information campaign for DRM,
accountability and transparency
Recommendations and suggested activities
- Compensation policies should consider particular urban and rural needs
- BMA to share their lessons with DDPM and provincial capitals
- Increase the training budget for CBDRM
- Organize exchange visits across villages, sub-districts, regions, etc.
- Promote incentives and awards for volunteers and communities
- Increase the number of trained volunteers both men and women
- Increase partnership with multiple stakeholders to cover climate change
adaptation issues and urban communities
- Introduce conflict resolution and community development training
- Introduce participatory decision making at all levels and stages of DRM
- Develop participatory environmental impact assessments, conflict resolution
processes
- Incorporate multiple hazard mapping into planning new infrastructure
- Set up urban and rural evacuation strategies, considering community
needs and appropriate use of infrastructures
- Engage grass-roots agencies, the defense sector and communities in the
planning and implementation process
Recommendations and suggested activities
- Hold awareness raising and lessons sharing events within provinces,
communities and institutions
- Exchanges of good practices from other countries
Recommendations and suggested activities
- Upgrade DDPM’s legal status
- Enhance its coordination role both within the government and with outside
stakeholders
- Increase resources and budget
- Train staff internally and externally on climate change, conflict management
and DRM
- Develop a strategy for urban areas, especially those prone to hazards
- Create a database and an information management system
- Compile hazard maps from all sources
- Encourage CBDRM activities to cover all high-risk urban communities
- Translate the mechanisms stated DPM Act as well as in the NDPMP into
action and learn from it
- Learn from recent flood and implementation of the NDPMP to revise the
plan or regulations as necessary
- Engage grass-roots organizations, representing vulnerable and marginalized
populations, both men and women’s groups and private sector in
recovery planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes
- Train staff from all government sectors on DRM mainstreaming
- Manual preparations for all concerned agencies for better unified incident
command system
- Inform the public about compensation policies
- Include messages on hazard awareness and safety massages, to restore
people’s confidence to ‘build back safer’
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