Pakistan: 'Disaster management plans flawed'

Source(s): Dawn Media Group
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According to Dawn, experts highlighted financial constraints and issues related to flawed implementation of the disaster risk management measures as impediments compromising the provincial government’s ability to mitigate future flood-related losses. "Our efforts are focused on providing tents during the rehabilitation process and helping the affected communities to reconstruct their destroyed houses, but what is our mitigation strategy?" asked the representative of a western organisation involved in rehabilitation of the flood-affected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Replying to this, the National Disaster Management Authority’s (NDMA), in collaboration with the One UN Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Joint Programme, said it had embarked upon a comprehensive plan to incorporate disaster risk reduction (DRR) mainstreaming in all the government projects. "Sector-specific strategic planning and framework for DRR mainstreaming will be developed," said Shahzad Khan Bangash of PDMA.

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