Economics of DRR

Determine the impact of the 2008/9 floods on various sectors of the economy in 20 districts of Zambia.

Zambia presentation in the Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction, Coordination, Planning and Policy Advisory Capacity of SADC Project Inception Workshop, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-24 January 2020.

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.

Tanzania presentation in the Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction, Coordination, Planning and Policy Advisory Capacity of SADC Project Inception Workshop, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 20-24 January 2020.

The Risk, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (RVCA) for Kilosa district aimed to identify disaster risks, vulnerability and capacities in the district. The findings from the RVCA form the basis for the preparation of the District’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (DEPRP).

The Disaster Vulnerability Assessment Phase two study is aimed at determining the type, location and frequency of the disasters at national and regional level. To identify the current capacity and coping systems (organizational arrangement) at national and regional level.

This report provides an overview of vulnerability across the region, especially as it relates to food and nutrition security. Central to its analysis is the information provided by respective National Vulnerability Assessment Committees at the Regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis Annual Dissemination Forum, held from 01 to 04 July 2019 in Windhoek, Namibia.

The development objective of the Strengthening DRR Coordination, Planning and Policy Advisory Capacity of SADC for Southern Africa is to strengthen the disaster resilience of Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states through regional collaboration and improved coordination, planning, policy advisory and knowledge dissemination capacity of SADC.

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.