Government of Zimbabwe

The overall objective of the National Contingency Plan is to help ensure that Government, partners and civil society mount a timely, consistent and coordinated response to anticipated hazards during the 2012–2013 planning period in order to minimise potential humanitarian consequences and initiate linkages for the early recovery of affected communities. 

An Act to provide for integrated, co-ordinated and mainstreaming of disaster risk management that focuses on preventing or reducing the risk of disasters, mitigating the severity of disasters, emergency preparedness, emergency fire services, rapid and effective response to disasters and post-disaster recovery; to provide for the establishment of a disaster risk management organisation and provi

An Act to establish a civil protection organization and provide for the operation of civil protection services in times of disaster; to provide for the establishment of a fund to finance civil protection; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

An Official Statement made by His Excellency July Moyo, at the sixth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, May 2019.

This report reviews the availability of data in Zimbabwe to report against the indicators recommended to measure the global targets of the Sendai Framework, and identify current gaps.