The following is a list of all conten labeled as "Community based DRR"
This Lean Season Food Insecurity Response Plan (LS-FIRP), developed by the Government of Malawi in collaboration with its humanitarian partners leveraging the architecture of the humanitarian cluster system, identifies Food Security, Nutrition, Protection, Education and Transport and Logistics clusters as the key priority clusters to address immediate needs.
Government and humanitarian partners worked together to develop a response plan based on the analysis of the context, immediate humanitarian need and projected needs for the coming three months given. As a basis for specific sector response plans, overarching strategic priorities have been identified to support effective and timely humanitarian assistance to populations in need in Malawi.
This Strategic Plan focuses on the key strategic outcomes that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) intends to deliver in the next 5 years from 2017. The OVP is constitutionally a delegated office and as such, departments under it may not be the same in the life span of the Strategic Plan. This aspect has been taken into account when developing the Strategic Plan.
The guidelines and standards are divided into three main sections: the first section provides background information on the devolution process of DoDMA’s functions, the second section is on disaster risk reduction and the third section is on disaster response and recovery. Within each main section are subsections giving guidelines and standards for each devolved function and responsibility.
The Government has developed the National Resilience Strategic Framework (NRSF) to enable it to guide, coordinate and lead the process of resilience building in the country to ensure that Lesotho find a durable solution to address the multi-faceted challenges posed by climate induced shocks and stresses.
The Plan of Action (PoA) is the strategic plan for the implementation of the Sendai Framework in Africa. It is intended to provide guidance and direction for actions by all at the continental, regional, national and sub-national/local levels in Africa to prevent and reduce the risk of disasters for resilience in line with the Sendai Framework.
The National Climate Change Management Policy is a key instrument for managing climate change in the country of Malawi.
The goal is to create an enabling policy and legal framework for a pragmatic, coordinated and harmonized approach to climate change management.
The broad objective of the plan is to help make Malawi resilient to disasters and break the cycle of food insecurity.
To achieve this, the following specific objectives will be pursued:
The need for a Disaster Risk Management Policy for Malawi has been felt through experiences and lessons learnt by government, civil society organisations and development partners in the coordination of disaster risk management activities in the country.
This policy will serve the following purposes:
The programmme is a result of issues and concerns expresses by Malawians on food security, water and sanitation renewable energy, forest product and services, environment and indigenous knowledge.