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National Disaster Risk Management Act 2016

legislation type Executive
Act
DRM/DRR Framework
Passed in 2017
The National Disaster Risk Management Act establishes the measures to ensure an effective disaster management for Nauru. 

The purposes of the act are the following: 1) to mitigate the potential adverse effects of an event, to prepare managing the effects of an event and to effectively respond to and revocer from a disaster; 2) to provide procedures for effective coordination of international disaster relief assistance.

To achieve these, the act sets the following measures: 1) to establish community disaster management committees; 2) to prepare national disaster management plans and guidelines; 3) to prepare agency or departmental disaster risk management plans; 4) to ensure that communities receive appropriate information about preparing, responding to and recovering from a disaster; 5) to establish the Department of National Emergency Services, the National Disaster Risk Management Council, the National Emergency Operation Centre and the National Controller. 

Documents

from the Grantham Research Institute
from the Grantham Research Institute
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