Assessment of Integrated Disaster Risk Management Planning Capacity
Risk-Informed DRM Planning Capacity
- Assess institutional capacity to develop and implement risk-informed disaster preparedness, emergency response, recovery, reconstruction, and resilience plans.
- Review whether DRM planning processes are informed by:
- Hazard assessments;
- Exposure and vulnerability data;
- Climate projections;
- Historical disaster-loss information;
- Multi-hazard risk scenarios;
- Impact-based forecasts;
- Critical infrastructure analysis;
- Community risk assessments; and
- Social, economic, environmental, and gender considerations.
- Assess the integration of sector ministries and departments in national and subnational DRM planning processes.
- Review the extent to which DRM is mainstreamed into sectoral plans for:
- Agriculture and food security;
- Water resources;
- Health;
- Education;
- Transport;
- Energy;
- Housing;
- Urban development;
- Environment;
- Social protection;
- Telecommunications;
- Local government;
- Finance and planning; and
- Critical infrastructure.
- Assess linkages between DRM plans, climate-change adaptation plans, development plans, humanitarian preparedness plans, public-investment programmes, and local development plans.
- Review the quality, consistency, implementation status, financing arrangements, monitoring systems, and updating mechanisms of preparedness, contingency, response, recovery, and reconstruction plans.
- Assess whether plans contain clearly defined responsibilities, activation thresholds, timelines, resource requirements, operational procedures, coordination arrangements, and accountability mechanisms.
MHEWC intended to assess the DRM planning capacity:
Pillar 1: Data Integration & Risk-Informed Development
- [ ] Institutional Capacity Review: Does the necessary institutional capacity exist to develop and implement risk-informed disaster preparedness, emergency response, recovery, reconstruction, and resilience plans?
- [ ] Plan Data Drivers: Are DRM planning processes systematically informed by (and documented using):
- [ ] Hazard assessments?
- [ ] Exposure and vulnerability data?
- [ ] Climate projections?
- [ ] Historical disaster-loss information?
- [ ] Multi-hazard risk scenarios?
- [ ] Impact-based forecasts?
- [ ] Critical infrastructure analysis?
- [ ] Community risk assessments?
- [ ] Social, economic, environmental, and gender considerations?
Pillar 2: Sectoral Mainstreaming and Integration
- [ ] Sectoral Participation: Assess the formal integration of sector ministries and departments (agriculture, health, etc.) in national and subnational DRM planning processes.
- [ ] DRM in Sectoral Plans: Review the extent to which DRM is mainstreamed into specific sectoral plans for:
- [ ] Agriculture and food security?
- [ ] Water resources?
- [ ] Health?
- [ ] Education?
- [ ] Transport?
- [ ] Energy?
- [ ] Housing?
- [ ] Urban development?
- [ ] Environment?
- [ ] Social protection?
- [ ] Telecommunications?
- [ ] Local government?
- [ ] Finance and planning?
- [ ] Critical infrastructure?
Pillar 3: Plan Alignment, Quality, and Accountability
- [ ] Integration & Linkages: Assess formal and operational links between DRM plans and:
- [ ] Climate-change adaptation plans?
- [ ] Development plans?
- [ ] Humanitarian preparedness plans?
- [ ] Public-investment programmes?
- [ ] Local development plans?
- [ ] Operational Plan Review: Evaluate the quality, consistency, implementation status, financing arrangements, monitoring systems, and updating mechanisms of:
- [ ] Preparedness plans?
- [ ] Contingency plans?
- [ ] Response plans?
- [ ] Recovery plans?
- [ ] Reconstruction plans?
- [ ] Accountability & Clarity: Do all plans contain clearly defined:
- [ ] Responsibilities?
- [ ] Activation thresholds?
- [ ] Timelines?
- [ ] Resource requirements?
- [ ] Operational procedures?
- [ ] Coordination arrangements?
- [ ] Accountability mechanisms?