Workshop held to get stakeholders’ feedback on NDMF
By Ali Imran

ISLAMABAD—A national consultation workshop was held here to inform stakeholders about the National Disaster Management Framework (NDMF) and get their feedback for incorporating changes into the framework.
Representatives of Federal Ministries and Provincial Governments, Donors, UN Agencies and NGOs attended the workshop, which was aimed at generating support from stakeholders for the implementation of National Disaster Management Framework. The other objective of the workshop was to raise awareness of stakeholders about National Disaster Management Commission (NDMC) and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) formation and about the passing of National Disaster Management Ordinance (NDMO).
Addressing the workshop, Chairman, Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission, Major General Farooq Khan said a National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is being established to ensure policy formation and information sharing. This would also serve as a coordinating body for the implementation of cross-sectoral disaster risk management programmes in response to the high priority by government officials, donors, non-governmental agencies and other key stakeholders, he added.
The Framework has been developed in the context of recent priorities of the government of Pakistan regarding enhancingdisaster risk reduction capacities by setting up institutional arrangements and policies. It provides guidelines for the work of multiple stakeholders over the next five years.
As part of the NDM Framework, nine priority areas were identified for risk reduction capacity building at the National, Provincial and District Levels for the next five years.
The nine priority areas include national hazard and vulnerability assessment, multi-hazard early warning system, institutional and legal arrangements for risk reduction and response, promoting disaster risk reduction and preparedness planning, community and local level risk reduction programming, training, education and awareness raising, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development, capacity development for emergency response and capacity development for post disaster recovery.