Agencia de Protección Civil

Protección Civil es un servicio público, responsable de prevenir, mitigar y atender en forma efectiva los desastres naturales y antrópicos en el país y además desplegar en su eventualidad, el servicio público de protección civil, el cual debe caracterizarse por su generalidad, obligatoriedad, continuidad y regularidad, para garantizar la vida e integridad física de las personas, así como la seguridad de los bienes privados y públicos.

Institutional Framework

Civil Protection is a public service, responsible for preventing, mitigating and effectively addressing natural and man-made disasters in the country and also deploying, in the event of such disasters, the public civil protection service, which must be characterized by its generality, obligation, continuity and regularity, to guarantee the life and physical integrity of people, as well as the security of private and public property.

LEGAL BASIS:

The new Civil Protection, Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters Law in El Salvador was approved by decree No. 777 of August 18, 2005, and was published in the Official Gazette Volume No. 368, number 160. This Law replies the Civil Defense Law issued on April 8, 1976, as well as the Law of Procedures to declare a national emergency issued on July 29, 1988.

MISSION:

To coordinate the development of the country’s capacities for the comprehensive management of disaster risks, through the articulation of the National System of Civil Protection, Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters, which contributes to safeguarding human life in risk situations and the well-being of the inhabitants of the country, as well as safe and sustainable development.

VISION:

To be, as the governing entity of the consolidated National System of Civil Protection, Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters, capable of preventing, mitigating, intervening and addressing the consequences of risk factors, emergencies and disasters.

BEGINNING:

Principle of Human Dignity: The human person is the main focus of disaster prevention and mitigation, as well as everything related to their necessary protection.

Principle of Effective Civil Protection, Prevention and Mitigation: Prevention, through the ecological management of risks, is the ideal means to mitigate the effects of disasters and to protect the civilian population from a risk situation.

Principle of Sustainability:  Civil Protection, Prevention and Mitigation actions in case of disasters will have community participation to promote sustainability and the protection of threatened ecosystems.

Principle of Systematicity:  The actions of governmental and private actors in matters of civil protection, prevention and mitigation in case of disasters, will work in an articulated and systematic way guaranteeing transparency, effectiveness and coverage.

Principle of Generality:  All persons without any discrimination have equal access to relief or aid in case of disasters, as well as the effective protection of their property.

Principle of Proportionality:  All civil protection, prevention and mitigation actions in the case of disasters must have a correspondence between the impacts that are to be prevented or mitigated, with respect to the available means that are assigned according to each circumstance, seeking the greatest efficiency and the least damage to the property of others.

Principle of Continuity:  The entities responsible for civil protection, prevention and mitigation of disasters are permanent in nature and their personnel in such cases must remain at your full disposal for as long as required for the appropriate attention to national emergencies due to disasters.Show10102550Alldownloads per pageLook for:

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