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This document is the result of a consultation sponsored by UNDP on behalf of the Directorate General of Civil Security, within the framework of the program entitled: “Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction in policies to reduce poverty in the Union of the Comoros" funded by the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).
Describes the main axes, the program components and the short and medium-term strategic actions for disaster risk reduction. The main goal is to propose coherent priority actions in the short and medium term in order to operationalize the National DRR strategy. It includes a timetable and an order of execution of the various actions.
Risk-informed development allows for development to become a vehicle to reduce risk, avoid creating risks and build resilience. Only resilient development can become sustainable development; sustainable development initiatives will fail unless they are risk-informed. Risk, resilience and sustainability knowledge and actions need to go hand-in-hand.
Aware of the development challenges represented by risks and disasters, Madagascar finalized its first National Strategy for Risk and Disaster Management (SNGRC) in 2003. By being annexed to the national policy on risk and disaster management which was adopted during of the same year, this strategic document is an integral part of the said policy.
The 2019 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 as independent, analytically and empirically grounded discussions of major development issues, trends and policies.
This document presents the results of the project "Assessment of natural risks in the Comoros" which was commissioned in order to analyse and assess the current situation; main challenges and issues; strengths and weaknesses as well as the country's potential needs for external assistance in disaster risk management.
The UNDP Comoros office through the project “Integration of disaster risk reduction into policies to reduce poverty in the Union of the Comoros” intends to contribute in the development of a mapping of volcanic and seismic hazards, cyclonic, landslides, and floods on all three islands (Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli).
The Evaluation of Vulnerability to the Risks of Flooding in the Union of the Comoros is a document that:
The objective of this study is to assess the vulnerability of the population of the Comoros to different hydrometeorological and geological hazards, taking into account the characteristics and specificities of each of the islands of the Union of the Comoros.
The aim of this report is to support legislators, public administrators, DRR and development practitioners and advocates to prepare and implement effective disaster risk management (DRM) legal frameworks for their country’s needs, drawing on examples and experience from other countries.