Policies, Plans & Strategies

An Official Statement at the fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, May 2013.

The objectives of this National Contingency Plan were to:

Regarding the General Directorate for Civil Security.

Speech by His Excellency, Mohamed BACAR DOSSAR Director of Cabinet of the President of the Union of the Comoros, Responsible for Defense and Territorial Security; An Official Statement at the second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, June 2009.

Creates the National Platform for the Prevention and Reduction of Disaster Risks.

The objective of this Policy is to guide climate change management in the country, enhance the national adaptive captive, scale up mitigation actions, facilitate domestication of global policies and ensure compliance to the global mechanisms. The Policy addresses four thematic areas which are clustered as follows:

Zimbabwe’s Climate Change Response Strategy mainstreams climate change through a sectorial approach to ensure that each sector implements adaptation and mitigation actions. Each sector will therefore be able to direct its project proposals to the appropriate funding mechanism.

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.