Namibia: Country Case Study Report - How Law and Regulation Supports Disaster Risk Reduction

This report assesses the content and implementation of Namibia's new national framework for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and related legislation, which includes the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) of 2012, the National Disaster Risk Management Plan of 2011, and the National Disaster Risk Management Policy of 2009.

It highlights the ways in which law and regulation in Namibia are supporting, or may in future support, DRR, and balances this against some of the main gaps that exist both in law and in practice.