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National legal frameworks

This page displays national legal frameworks on disaster risk, climate adaptation and resilience.

Governance of risk plays a central role in managing disaster risk. A national legal framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a comprehensive set of laws, regulations, policies, and institutional arrangements that a country establishes to manage and mitigate disaster risks. It defines the roles and responsibilities of governmental and non-governmental entities and sets up national agencies for coordinating DRR activities.

Legal frameworks include regulations and standards to prevent disasters or minimize their impact, such as building codes and land-use planning regulations, and outlines preparedness and response measures like emergency plans and early warning systems. A robust national legal framework for DRR is essential for creating a structured and coordinated approach to managing disaster risks, enhancing resilience, and protecting lives, property, and livelihoods.

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Armenia: Law on population protection in emergency situations

This law defines the bases and the arrangement of population protection in emergency situations, the rights and responsibilities of state and local authorities, enterprises, institutions, organizations, irrespective of the organizational-legal type, as

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Samoa: Planning and urban management act, 2004

This Act establishes a Planning and Urban Management Agency to implement a framework for planning the use, development, management and protection of land in Samoa in the present and long-term interests of all Samoans and for related purposes.

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USA: Disaster mitigation act of 2000

This Act amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize a program for predisaster mitigation, streamline the administration of disaster relief, and control the Federal costs of disaster assistance. As a condition

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Philippines: National framework strategy on climate change 2010-2022

The National Framework Stategy on Climate Change is committed towards ensuring and strengthening the adaptation of the Philippines' national ecosystems and human communities to climate change. In the process, the Framework aspires to chart a cleaner

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Brazil: Law establishing the national policy on protection and civil defence (no. 12.608, 10 April 2012)

This law outlines the legal framework for the establishment of Brazil's national policy on protection and civil defence.

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Kiribati: National framework for climate change and climate change adaptation

This framework outlines the government of Kiribati's approach to climate change and climate change adaptation in the context of sustainable development.

This framework covers considerations of climate change mitigation, the integration of adaptation into

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Tonga: Strategic development framework (2015-2025)

The Tongan Strategic Development Framework 2015-2025: A more progressive Tonga: Enhancing Our Inheritance, presents the Kingdom’s new development framework.
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South Africa: Disaster management amendment act, 2015

This Act amends the Disaster Management Act, 2002, so as to substitute and insert certain definitions; to clarify policy focus on rehabilitation and functioning of disaster management centres; to align the functions of the National Disaster Management

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