Linkages for effective disaster management in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province - institutional and capacity development for civil protection

Case study on disaster risk management in Pakistan:

This study presents the German development cooperation project in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, hit by the 2005 earthquake, focusing on:

- the organisational development of the new Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA).
- development of planning and implementation instruments to enable the new authority to perform its core tasks
- supporting the sustainable ongoing development of disaster management including the motivation of policymakers and decision-makers in other government departments and institutions,
- efficient networking of additional disaster management actors.

The 2005 earthquake led the Government of Pakistan to recognise the need to improve disaster management, so that the number of victims and the scale of damage caused by natural hazards in the future could be reduced or such outcomes avoided altogether. At the request of the Government of Pakistan, German development cooperation therefore supported Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in establishing a disaster management system.