UNDP support for strengthening capacity for disaster preparednessresponse and recovery at regional and community levels
Programme Area: Crisis Prevention and Recovery
Programme Title: UNDP support for strengthening capacity for disaster preparedness, response and recovery at regional and community levels
UNDAF Outcome(s): Increased national capacity for emergency preparedness, response, coordination and development, and implementation of disaster risk reduction by 2013.
Expected CP Outcome(s): [Those linked to the project and extracted from the CPAP]: Strengthen national/regional capacities for disaster preparedness, mitigation, and emergency humanitarian response and recovery
Expected Outputs: [Those that will result from the project and extracted from the CPAP]
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OUTPUT 1: Preparedness: Strengthened capacity for disaster preparedness in target regions and localities
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OUTPUT 2: DRR: Strengthened capacity for integrating DRR into development planning, policies, and programmes for sectors and stakeholders at national and regional levels.
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OUTPUT 3: Recovery: Strategic framework for post disaster diversified and adaptive livelihoods for vulnerable groups developed.
Implementing Partner: Office of the Prime Minister (OPM)
Responsible Parties: Ministry of Regional Local Government Housing and Rural Development (MRLGHRD), National Planning Commission (NPC), Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare (MGECW)
Implementation: National Execution
Brief Description:
The project aims to minimize vulnerability to future disasters through increased resilience, strengthened coordination capacity for disaster risk reduction (DRR), and prevention for regional and community disaster risk management (DRM) structures. The project will benefit the 6 regional councils and local authorities, and the communities vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters. Reduced vulnerability to disasters will be achieved through improved early warning; disaster prevention; enhanced regional and local preparedness; and response planning and increased disaster awareness. In this regard, the project will support activities to strengthen disaster preparedness through the development of a national disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery plan, contingency planning, the development of an emergency management operational procedure (EMOP), and the establishment of community disaster response teams and local disaster volunteer systems. In support of strengthening institutional capacity for DRM, the project will support the mainstreaming of DRR and climate change adaptation (CCA) into development planning, policies, and programmes for sectors and disaster management institutions in Namibia. Capacity development will be an integral component of the project through training in mainstreaming DRR and CCA, the development and establishment of early warning systems and operationalising the National Disaster Risk Management Policy and EMOP. The project will facilitate raising awareness on disaster risk reduction in the education sector and conducting feasibility studies for the integration of DRR into school curricula. The project places particular focus on integrating a prominent gender dimension in all phases of project implementation and will establish linkages with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare on gender projects.
Project implementation will be guided by recommendations made in the 2009 inter-agency Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), the Early Recovery Framework for flood prone areas in Namibia (2009), the Flood Preparedness, Response & Mitigation Action Plan 2009/10, and the priorities of the third National Development Plan (2007) (NDP III), the UNDAF 2005-2012 and DRR benchmarks in the National Disaster Risk Management Policy.
The project outputs are three-fold and will focus on: (1) Prevention and preparedness: Strengthened capacity for disaster prevention and preparedness in target regions and localities (2) DRR and CCA: Strengthened capacity for integrating DRR and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) into development planning, policies, and programmes for sectors and line ministries at national and regional levels. (3) Recovery: Strategic framework for post disaster diversified and adaptive livelihoods for vulnerable groups developed. The focus of this project is the nexus between disaster risk reduction and poverty, in a context of global climate change.
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) - the implementing institution will engage sector ministries such as the National Planning Commission Secretariat, Ministries of Regional Local Government Housing and Rural Development, Agriculture Water and Forestry, Health and Social Services, Education, Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Environment and Tourism as well as the Namibia Red Cross Society, UNDP and other UN agencies in the execution of some activities under the project. It is expected that other donors, UN agencies and line ministries will provide funding and capacity for an integrated approach to disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery in their areas of comparative advantage.
The total project budget will be US$1,098,680 UNDP/BCPR will contribute US$700,000 and the GRN will contribute US$398,680.
Agreed by (Implementing Partner):
Agreed by UNDP:
Programme Period: 2010-2013
Key Result Area: Disaster risk reduction, recovery and sustainable livelihoods
Atlas Award ID:
Start date: July 2010
End Date: August 2013
PAC Meeting Date:
Management Arrangements DEX
YYYY AWP budget: US$1,098,6800
Total resources required:
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Total allocated resources:
• Regular: US$700,000
• Other:
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Government: US$398,680