National integrated disaster risk management plan and implementation strategy for Guyana

The NIDRMP addresses all phases and components of DRM in Guyana: risk identification, prevention and mitigation, financial protection and risk transfer, preparedness and response, and recovery. The NIDRMP further includes activities at the national, regional and local levels for the government, private and social sectors. In addition, it also considers the main hazards in Guyana, which are floods and droughts, while also speaking to other hazards such as fires. The NIDRMP is considered as integrated in that it is developed as an overarching document linked to the other DRM plans in the country. 

It is evident that there have been significant advances made in Guyana in terms of an evolving national DRM system with an increasing reflection of the DRM approach. The advances made in the enabling environment are significant as legislation, policies and plans continue to increasingly reflect the IDRM (and CDM) approach. Some key gaps remain nonetheless, as briefly pointed to above, but which are the subject of section 4 below. The case is similar with regards to the overarching evolving DRM structure in Guyana, also discussed further below in the same section. In brief, if the national IDRM structure is to be comprehensive, it will need to further consider the five DRM components and provide for an enhanced and clarified definition as well as harmonization of roles and responsibilities between the different actors involved in DRM in Guyana.