Policies, Plans & Strategies

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

The objectives of the Humanitarian Response Plan for the period of 2019 -2020 were to:

• Provide immediate life-saving and life-sustaining assistance to the population affected by severe food insecurity
• Strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable communities to mitigate the impact of drought.

Build on the Sendai Framework and others in order to facilitate the identification of priority areas which must be integrated into the national development planning processes.

Review of the Disaster Management Policy of 2005.

An Act to establish and provide for the maintenance and operation of a system for the anticipation, preparedness, prevention, coordination, mitigation and management of disaster situations and the organisation of relief and recovery from disasters; establish the National Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit and provide for its powers and functions; provide for the declaration of disasters; e

This contingency plan covers the planned activities to be undertaken in 2008/09 rainy season with scenarios for the likely occurrence of floods based on the Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) rainfall forecasts.

Recovery Action Plan with specific activities and costing that result from the proposed recommendations in the 2009/2010 In-Depth Vulnerability and Needs Assessment Report that was undertaken in 17 districts.

The Seventh National Development Plan (also known as 7NDP) was born out of Zambia's aspiration to be a prosperous middle-income country by 2030. To achieve this aspiration, it is imperative that the country articulates the processes, interventions and actions that will propel development towards this desired state.

This contingency plan covers the 2009-2010 rainy season with the likely scenario of having floods as a hazard. This scenario is based on the 2009-2010 rainfall forecast for the country obtained from the Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD). It anticipates that a total population of 713,193 people (118,866 households) residing in 43 districts are likely be affected by floods.

This national disaster management policy framework for Zambia is intended to help the disaster management regime to assume and play a coordinating and implementation role before, during and after disaster outbreaks.