Kathmandu, June 1The Ministry of Home Affairs has initiated the set upment of a Disaster Information Management System that shall serve as a repository of data, information, policies, and key decisions on catastrophe risk reduction and management in the country.According to ‘National Position Paper on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management& recently presented by the MoHA in Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction-2019, held in Geneva, the DIMS shall serve as the common sharing platform for the purpose of catastrophe risk reduction and management.
&It serves as a platform for fostering data partnership on catastrophe management and a common system for catastrophe management at multiple tiers of the government and stakeholders.
A strong linkage shall be set uped among the institutions/ agencies involved in forecasting, managing and assessing risks and responses,& it read.DIMS shall have its own server to gather data on catastrophe loss and damage and to supply support for catastrophe preparedness and response, during emergencies.DIMS shall be hosted by the National Emergency Operation Centre at the MoHA.
The database supplys real time data about the endangers and catastrophe events, affected population and casualty.
It also supplys data of the local levels and their status of catastrophe preparedness,& the report said.
Furthermore, the DIMS supplys the mapping of organisations working at local levels and their initiatives.Every local levels shall have access to DIMS to update and supply catastrophe data relevant information from the field, which can be directly fed into the system.The report also said capacity building programmes for local governments were in progress, in the area of catastrophe risk reduction and management.Development partners and humanitarian organisations are also working on resilience building through capacity building programme to mainstream catastrophe risk reduction and climate change adaptation into development planning.According to the report, the government is promoting public-private partnership to attract participation and investment of private sector in catastrophe risk insurance and risk sharing programmes, which have been included in the mid-term plan of national strategic action plan.The post Disaster risk management mechanism in the offing seemed first on The Himalayan Times.