Pakistan: Learning from Disasters to Build a disaster Resilient Pakistan

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Pakistan Learning from Disasters to Build a
disaster Resilient Pakistan

• National Disaster Management Authority of Pakistan

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Gilgit
AREA AFFECTED - 30,000 SQ KM
Kalam
FAULT LINE 100 KM LONG
7.6
Mingora

• HUMAN LOSS - 73,338
• INJURED - 128,309
• FAMILIES AFFECTED- 500,000

Mardan
Peshawar
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Pakistan Earthquake

• 600,000 houses, infrastructure, 7,600 schools,
  over 500 medical institutions, and livelihoods of
  people all wiped out.
• FRC, Army, Government and people managed to
  provide relief, evacuate injured and provide food
  and temporary shelters and medical assistance to
  prevent further losses of life
• Pakistan is also working closely with the
  international community to reconstruct rapidly

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Reconstruction after Earthquake with Risk
Reduction

• Pakistan and international community handled the
  relief efforts excellently, avoiding further loss
  of life
• Now we are moving on from Relief phase to the
  longer run recovery and reconstruction
• Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
  Authority has targeted the self-build
  reconstruction of houses, and government led
  construction of schools and public buildings
• Seismically safe designs and building practices
  are being promoted

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Critical lesson

• Pakistan suffered from the lack of a pre-existing
  National Disaster Management Authority.

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Disaster Risk Reduction as National priority

• Government of Pakistan decided to raise the
  National Disaster Management Authority

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Lessons to apply

• The Gaps identified following the Yokohama
  strategy and Hyogo remain key
• Create the institutional and legal framework
• Ensure training, public awareness and
  preparedness
• Ensure a capable response capacity
• Build regional as well as national capacity

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OBJECTIVES OF NDMA

• NDMA will take a multi-sectoral approach.
• NDMA will deal with all aspects of disaster risk
  management, including risk mapping, building bye
  laws, disaster awareness at community level and
  through education and efficient preparedness and
  response/recovery.

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NDMA

• Law is about to be passed.
• Major components of the law
• Commission headed by Chief Executives at national
  and provincial level including opposition leaders
  as the highest policy making body, NDMA will be
  the implementation tool and secretariat
• Devolved responsibility to local government level
• Each tier expected to have preparedness, risk
  reduction and response capability
• NDMA ensures full integration and coordination
  between the tiers
• All agencies in disaster management to work
  through NDMA and local authorities ie a one
  window operation.

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NATIONAL COMMISSION
PM, LEADERS OF OPPOSITION MINISTERS
NDMA
PROVINCIAL DMA
CIVIL DEFENCE
ARMED FORCES
CIVIL SOCIETY/ NGOs/IOs
RESCUE RELIEF RESPONSE
RECOVERY REHABILITATION RESPONSE
INFO MANAGEMENT CELL
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Global Context

• Pakistan has endorsed the Hyogo Framework of
  Action at the World Conference on Disaster
  Reduction, Kobe, 2005-2015.
• In this Pakistan welcomes the initiative of
  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in
  providing us an opportunity to exchange our
  disaster experiences with other countries and to
  learn from global good practices

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Regional context

• When we look in our region we see an enormous
  capacity for multi-sectoral response, including
  but not limited to
• Nepals capacity in poor community reconstruction
• Irans capacity for preparedness and public
  education the success of which was shown in
  Lorestan and the Iranian and Turkish Red
  Crescents search and rescue capability
• Indias successes in reconstruction following
  Gujurats earthquake
• Pakistans engagement and coordination with the
  international community in immediate response and
  relief

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Next Steps

• We are building up the National Disaster
  Management Authority
• We seek cooperation from the International
  Strategy for Disaster Reduction, regional nations
  and the international community so we can set up
• 1) Appropriate national building bye laws to
  prevent hazards
• 2) Learn from other Governments disaster
  management institutions so that we can empower
  the NDMA to address disaster risk comprehensively
• 3) Enhance joint regional response capacity
• 4) Pakistan is also working closely with the ISDR
  to develop Disaster Early Warning System under
  the Clinton Tsunami Consortium