Living with Risk. A global review of disaster reduction initiatives

Policy and public commitment: the foundation of disaster risk reduction
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Country
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Cambodia
China
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Focal point for disaster
management
Ministry of Disaster Management
and Relief, Disaster
Management Bureau
Ministry of Home Affairs
National Committee for
Disaster Management
China National Committee
for International Disaster
Reduction
National Committee on Disaster
Management, Ministry
of Home Affairs
National Natural Disaster
Management Coordinating
Board (BAKORNAS PB),
Ministry of Peoples' Welfare
and Poverty Alleviation
State and provincial disaster
National Action Plan National action plans
Forest fire and haze disaster
reduction plans
National Disaster Management
Plan
Operation Sheba: relief and
rehabilitation plan for districts
Standing Orders on Disaster
of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar,
Noakhali, Feni, Laxmipur,
Rangamati, Khagrachhari,
Bandarban.
Flood Action Plan
No plan exists. Disaster management
issues are contained to a limited
extent in the National Environmental
Strategy of 1989 and in
Bhutan Building Rules of 1983.
No plan exists except the five year
strategy plan for the development of
the National Committee for Disaster
Management.
The National Natural Disaster
Reduction Plan of the People's
Republic of China
Laws of People's Republic of China
on Protecting against and Mitigating
Earthquake Disaster
Hong Kong Contingency Plan for
Natural Disasters
High Powered Committee Disaster
Management Plans
Action plan for reconstruction
in earthquake affected Maharashtra.
National Contingency Action Plan
Drought Contingency Plan 2000
Anti-disaster plan for the state
of Tamil Nadu.
Cyclone contingency plan of
action for the state of Andhra
Pradesh.
Action plan for reconstruction
in earthquake-affected state of
Gujarat.
Contingency plan for floods
and cyclones in Chennai.
District disaster management
action plan for Nainital.
Village Contingency Plan,
2002 (OXFAM Trust,
Hyderabad).
in Mount Merapi disaster
management.
Tsunami disaster in
Banuwangi.
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