Jordan: National Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy
This strategy is a road map to have a common understanding of the disaster risk reduction (DRR) sector. It is guided by Jordan’s development priorities and aims specifically at achieving a set of objectives, including setting basic disaster risk reduction, increasing awareness and knowledge of disaster risk reduction approaches and opportunities, establishing legal and institutional bases for effective planning and implementation of disaster risk reduction, and contributing to the inclusion of disaster risk reduction in development policies, programs and projects.
The strategy contributes fundamentally to sustainable development in the country through the programs and actions embedded in the action plan, which will harness more proactive approach to reduce exposure of human and our national assets to disasters. This requires promoting collaborative framework from all concerned international and national stakeholders to ensure effective implementation.