Praia´s Disaster Risk Reduction Plan UNISDR

Local Disaster Risk Reduction Plan – (Praia, Cape Verde (SIDS)

Dr. Carlos Germano Ferreira Costa

Disaster Risk Reduction Management Specialist

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Praia´s Disaster Risk Reduction Plan Cape Verde (SIDS - West Africa)

City/ LG Name Praia

Country Cape Verde (SIDS)

Focal Point Dr. Carlos Germano Ferreira Costa Disaster Risk Reduction Management Specialist

Breakdown of Objectives, Activities and Indicators for Each of MCR Campaign 10 Essentials

Essential 1: Organise for disaster resilience

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • A permanent disaster risk

management office is established in the municipality of Praia;

• Make sure the Municipality of Praia counts with administrative resources, qualified staff and infrastructure;

• Establish a designated office within the city administration to lead a coordination mechanism among departments and other actors;

• Designated office within the city administration to lead a coordination mechanism among departments and other actors created;

• # of formal protocols to maintain recognition of individual organisations and services (fire departments, ambulance services, health services, police, NGOs and others), increase inter-operability among these units (language, tools, communication) and generate scenarios for coordinated drills;

By December 2018;

Civil Protection and Municipality of Praia;

2 • DRR is mainstreamed into local Government Planning

• Establish a legislative framework for resilience

• # of environmental, building and planning standards and

By June 2019; Municipality of Praia;




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and Programmes in the municipality of Praia;

and disaster risk reduction;

• Make sure that DRR is a formal and permanent priority within regular planning, governance and local government programmes;

bylaws to support risk reduction, anchored in recent risk assessments, created;

3 • Disaster prevention, preparedness, response and resilient early recovery is coordinated at the Municipal level;

• Define and review, on a regular basis, the roles and responsibilities of departments and services involved;

• # of regulations for low-income areas improved, reinforcing safety;

• # of collaborative strategies to integrate and coordinate all existing units responsible for emergency response, relief and recovery, even if under the jurisdiction of multiple authorities;

By June 2019; Civil Protection;

4 • A Community based DRR approach, taking into account the SIDS specificities, is elaborated and implemented at the Municipal level;

• Involve different actors, volunteers, NGOs, academia, the business community and encourage the involvement of community based organizations as early as possible in the process;

• Clarify the limitation of authority and the roles and responsibilities of communities;

• # of municipal ordinances that support disaster risk reduction in all sectors (public and private);

• # of partnerships with local, national or international universities, NGOs or scientific-technical bodies that can provide data, expertise and Research;


5 • Residents, private corporations and neighboring government land owners work collectively to reduce risks;

• Coordinate all emergency services within the city;

• Make sure that citizens take action to improve livelihoods and create defensible spaces along the urban-wild land interface areas;

• Create alliances and networks beyond the city;

• # of alliances, incorporating a cluster approach among neighbouring municipalities with similar or interdependent risks, to strengthen partnerships, improve decentralized action, plan for common territorial risks and multiply resources;





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• # of participation in regional and international fora and in the global campaign “Making Cities Resilient,” to promote initiatives, exchange experiences and increase local-national-international cooperation;

Essential 2: Identify, understand and use current and future risk scenarios

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • Risk, Capacity and

vulnerability (physical and socioeconomic) assessments to fill gaps knowledge, identifying hazards, exposures and vulnerabilities in at least the “most probable” and “most severe” (“worst-case”) scenarios considering the specificities of Praia, are conducted;

• Led by the appropriate city department, prepare comprehensive risk, capacity and vulnerability assessments, and risk and vulnerability maps with loss scenarios, including the impact of climate change, using technical expertise available through city entities or local technical institutions;

• Enlist, as necessary, technical support from national, regional and international experts.

• Make sure to consult and involve local stakeholders;

• Determine the degree of vulnerability (physical and socioeconomic) as well as exposure to the hazard of the population, development sectors, infrastructure and ongoing or planned city projects.

• # of comprehensive risk, capacity and vulnerability assessments, and risk and, vulnerability maps created with loss scenarios;

• # of training and capacity building activities undertake;

• # of PDNA training and workshops undertaken;

• Creation of a rooster of technical national, regional and international experts;

• Creation of a Municipal Committee to consult and include municipal stakeholders in the DRR decision-making;

• # of Detailed Urban Risk Assessments undertaken;

By June 2019; Civil Protection and Municipality of Praia;




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• Map and work with populations in high-risk areas;

• Identify the capacities and resources available institutionally and at neighborhood or district level;

• Undertake baseline studies;

2 • A risk and vulnerability (physical and socioeconomic) database, taking into account hazards, exposures and vulnerabilities in at least the “most probable” and “most severe” (“worst-case”) scenarios, is built;

• Prepare and maintain an updated database of disaster losses from past events and current potential hazards in the city;

• Establish and map the nature, locale, intensity and probability of hazards (including natural events, technological and other man-made hazards);

• Update the risk, capacity and vulnerability assessments, preferably annually;

• Make sure the data collected and the DRR information generated is shared between government institutions to support evidenced-based policy making;

• Creation of updated database of disaster losses from past events and current potential hazards in the city;

• Mapping of the nature, locale, intensity and probability of hazards;

• # of capacity and vulnerability assessments updated;

• Creation of communication channels between local government institutions for improved DRR;

By August 2019; Civil Protection and Municipality of Praia;

3 • A DRR master plan is developed;

• Identify corrective actions and plans to reduce the risks;

• Prioritize actions based on an analysis of the urban plan, land-use zoning, investment decisions and worst-case

• # of corrective actions and plans to reduce the risks created and implemented;

• # of actions based on an analysis of the urban plan, land-use zoning, investment

By February 2020; Civil Protection and Municipality of Praia;




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scenarios for emergency preparedness plans and exercises;

• Update the DRR Master Plan, preferably every three (3) years;

decisions and worst-case scenarios for emergency preparedness plans and exercises implemented;

• Existence of an updated DRR Master Plan for the municipality;

4 • An early warning system in implemented and operative;

• Establish a city-wide geographic information and monitoring system;

• Create a geographic information and monitoring system that includes input data from and is accessible to all actors, including civil society, the production sector (for example, agriculture, commerce and tourism) and the scientific and technical community;

• Maintain outputs in the city’s Geographic Information System (GIS);

• Creation of a city-wide geographic information and monitoring system;

• # of actions undertake to feed with updated information the city-wide geographic information and monitoring system;

By November 2020; Civil Protection and Municipality of Praia;

5 • Risk reduction measures and awareness campaigns are in place;

• Encourage public and private sector participation in developing awareness campaigns and information that promote resilience actions for the general public, home owners, education and health workers, industry, real estate developers and others;

• Make the information available to the public

• # of awareness campaigns and information that promote resilience actions implemented;

• # of formal communication channels to make the information available to the public created;

• # of formal communication channels to make the

By January 2018; Civil Protection and Municipality of Praia;




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through websites and other means of information;

• Make the information available to other public institutions through websites and other means of information;

information available to Government Institutions created;

Essential 3: Strengthen financial capacity for resilience.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • A municipal budget for DRR

is established; • Provide dedicated

resources, from service charges, taxes, fees, incentives, fines and municipal bonds, to ensure that DRR actions can be carried out in the municipality of Praia;

• Integrate risk reduction measures into the local government budget to increase the resilience of the city’s economy, ecosystems and infrastructure (i.e. schools, hospitals, critical assets, water supply, drainage and solid waste management, etc);

• Provide support for a budget to maintain well-trained and equipped emergency response services, communications, early warning systems and risk assessment capacities;

• Develop long-term capital investments to retrofit

• % of municipal finances dedicated to the implementation of the Ten Essentials;

• # of risk reduction measures integrated into the local government budget to increase resilience;

• Budget exclusive for emergency response, communications, early warning systems and risk assessment capacities created;





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and/or replace the most critical emergency lifelines;

2 • Incentives for risk reduction, are in place, addressing the private sector, government institutions and the civil society;

• Provide incentives for the construction of safe housing and infrastructure and for local businesses, government institutions and residents that invest in disaster resiliency and risk reduction;

• Creation of incentives for the construction of safe housing and infrastructure and for local businesses that invest in disaster resiliency and risk reduction, strengthening and retrofitting vulnerable housing;


3 • Penalties for low risk reduction actions, are in place, addressing the private sector, government institutions and the civil society;

Support safer standards by providing design options and subsidized actions in high-risk areas.

• Encourage local businesses, banks, government, and insurance companies to reduce the cost of more sustainable building supplies and support low-income communities with insurance and savings and credit schemes;

• Consider differentiated penalties and sanctions for those among the private sector, government institutions and the civil society who increase risk and environmental degradation;

• Give differentiated public recognition and awards to for those among the private sector,

• # of design options and subsidized actions in high-risk areas provided by the municipality;

• Creation of a municipal program to reduce the cost of more sustainable building supplies and support low-income communities with insurance and savings and credit schemes;

• # of functional legislation and norms addressing penalties and sanctions for those who increase risk and environmental degradation;

• Creation of a municipal public recognition and awards to good city practices that reduce risk of disasters;





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government institutions and the civil society who take action to reduce risk and environmental degradation, and promote good city practices that reduce risk of disasters;

Essential 4: Pursue resilient urban development and design.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • Strengthen key

infrastructure keeping they operating and functional, before, during and after an occurrence of a disaster;

• Establish and implement action plans and programmes, maintain the structural and physical resilience and robustness of key infrastructure;

• Assess the geographical location and investigate capacity requirements, of new key infrastructure, in emergency and recovery situations;

• Assess disaster risk in schools and hospitals and strengthen/retrofit the most vulnerable;

• Collect and assess data on the physical vulnerability of schools and health facilities in disaster-prone areas;

• Assess and ensure compliance of key infrastructure, respecting safety standards when deciding on the location, design and construction of all new infrastructure;

• Create an action plan to

• # of action plans and programmes implemented to maintain the structural and physical resilience and robustness of key infrastructure;

• # of assessments addressing the geographical location and capacity requirements of new key infrastructure;

• # of assessments to address RR in schools and hospitals, and retrofitting of the most vulnerable;

• # of assessments and data collection concerning the physical vulnerability of schools and health facilities in disaster-prone areas;

• # of assessments of compliance to safety standards concerning the location, design

By June 2022; Municipality of Praia, the Civil Society, and the Private Sector;




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assess and reduce vulnerability and risks in existing key infrastructure, such as roads and communications, by selecting and retrofitting the most critical (and vulnerable) infrastructure, and incorporating stringent maintenance and repair programmes;

• Generate wider action and more human resources by encouraging surveyors, engineers and other built environment professionals, the private sector and communities to participate in this critical risk reduction work;

and construction of new infrastructure;

• Existence of an action plan to assess and reduce vulnerability and risks in existing key infrastructure;

• # of retrofitting and stringent maintenance and repair undertake in critical infrastructure;

• # of actions and volume of human resources participating/addressing critical risk reduction work;

2 • Protect critical infrastructure recognizing the relevance of priority services and operations before, during and after a disaster;

• Improve the safety of public health and educational facilities that have complementary and supporting roles in emergency response and recovery;

• Plan for business continuity to ensure that lifelines and services are quickly restored;

• Strengthen and financially motivate private facilities that can contribute to relief efforts and provide complementary services in the emergency and recovery phase;

• Increase the number of private institutions that

• # of public health and educational facilities that support emergency response and recovery;

• #Existence of plans to ensure quick restoration of lifelines and critical services;

• # of financial initiatives to motivate private facilities to support emergency response and recovery;

• # of private institutions that are officially partners of the local government;

By June 2022; Municipality of Praia, the Civil Society, and the Private Sector;




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become partners of the local government to deliver emergency, early recovery and DRR implementation;

Essential 5: Safeguard natural buffers to enhance the protective functions offered by natural ecosystems.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • Develop Praia´s land use

planning based on risks, capacity and physical and socioeconomic assessments;

• Incorporate disaster risk reduction and climate change impacts into Praia´s urban land use plan and sectorial regulations, based on risk assessments;

• Incorporate peripheral land around urban developments and the wider rural and natural e nvironment in Praia´s land use planning;

• Create plans to prevent/control development in extreme-risk areas and to mitigate risk in existing developments;

• Prescribe restrictions on building type, use, occupancy and density based in watershed basins, in the municipality of Praia;

• Establish and spread out the location of natural buffers critical infrastructure, evacuation shelters, emergency services and lifelines;

• # of sectorial regulations and land use plans incorporating DRR and Climate Change in the municipality of Praia;

• Incorporation of peri-urban issues in Praia´s land use plan;

• # of Plans created and implemented to control and limit expansion in extreme-risk areas;

• # of restrictions on building type, use, occupancy and density in the municipality of Praia;

• # of critical infrastructure, evacuation shelters, emergency services and lifelines available in the municipality of Praia;

• Identification and location of escape routes and routes for delivery of relief supplies defined;

• Existence of an

By December 2022; Municipality of Praia, the Civil Protection, and the Private Sector;




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• Establish and spread out escape routes and routes for delivery of relief supplies;

• Maintain an updated inventory of land use classification and vulnerability and an urban spatial and building database to monitor development in hazard-prone areas of the city;

updated inventory of land use classification and vulnerability and an urban spatial and building database to monitor urban and peri-urban development;

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Essential 6: Strengthen institutional capacity for resilience.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • Enforcement of and

compliance with risk-sensitive building codes and regulations in urban and peri-urban areas, for specific public, of the Municipality of Praia;

• Ensure that municipal regulations and laws include building codes that set standards for location, design and construction to minimize disasters;

• Strengthen local capacity building of residents to increase public awareness, using motivational and fiscal means to increase compliance;

• Ensure adequate clarity about differences in building regulations for critical public infrastructure, engineered buildings and more simple and accessible guidelines for smaller non-engineered homes;

• # of municipal regulations and laws that include building codes, standards for locations, design and construction guidelines;

• # of actions to strengthen local capacity building;

• # of building regulations addressing specificities of different buildings;

By January 2023; Municipality of Praia, the Civil Society, the Civil Protection, and the Private Sector;




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Essential 7: Understand and strengthen societal capacity for resilience.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • Disaster risk reduction into

all levels formal education programmes in the Municipality of Praia, in integrated;

• Work with educational authorities, professors, students and advocates to include disaster risk reduction at all levels of the school curriculum and in all public and private institutions;

• Seek necessary technical support for curriculum development from related institutions and agencies;

• Collect and learn from past experiences;

• School curriculums, at all levels, including DRR;

• Technical support for curriculum development provided;

• Lessons learned exercise undertook and disseminated;

By January 2021; Municipality of Praia, Private and Public educational sectors and Civil protection;

2 • Awareness of the impact of environmental change and degradation of ecosystems on disaster risk, is raised in the municipality of Praia;

• Recognize and communicate the multiple functions and services that ecosystems provide to a city, including natural hazard protection or mitigation, to strengthen societal capacity for resilience;

• Educate the public about the negative consequences of global warming and climate change;

• # of actions to recognize and communicate the functions of environmental services to strengthen societal capacity for resilience;

• # of educational actions to raise awareness on global warming and climate change;


3 • Tabletop exercises and periodic drills are developed in the Municipality of Praia;

• Carry out tabletop simulation exercises undertaken in key sectors, in which local actors evaluate a community, institution or agency’s ability to respond and execute one or more parts of an

• # of tabletop simulation exercises in key sectors undertaken;

• # of weaknesses and resources gaps found in the DRR process at the municipal level;

• # of actors involved,





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emergency preparedness plan;

• Conduct exercises on a regular basis to test complex responses and evaluate the plan, policies, and procedures;

• Involvement of a wide range of organizations, including fire, law enforcement, emergency management, and when necessary, other agencies such as local public health, public safety, the Red Cross and others in the DRR process;

and level of participation of them, in the entire DRR process at the municipal level;

Essential 8: Increase infrastructure resilience.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY • 1 • Protect critical infrastructure

in urban and peri-urban areas of the municipality of Praia;

• Assess the vulnerability of existing infrastructure to natural hazards;

• Undertake measures to prevent infrastructure damage;

• Plan for business continuity to ensure that lifelines and services are quickly restored;

• Develop special programmes to protect historic buildings and the city´s cultural heritage;

• # of infrastructure vulnerability assessments undertaken;

• # of measures to prevent infrastructure damage implemented;

• Existence of an updated plan for business continuity implemented;

• Existence of special programmes to protect historic buildings;

By February 2021; Municipality of Praia, the Civil Society, and the Private Sector;

• 2 • Develop resilient new infrastructure in the municipality of Praia;

• Establish minimum criteria and standards of resilience and safety, as part of urban design;

• Existence of minimum criteria and standards of resilience and safety, as part of

By February 2022; Municipality of Praia, the Civil Society, and the Private Sector;




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• Promote action to support the private sector to invest, design and construct new sustainable infrastructure in appropriate locations and to a higher standard of hazard and climate resilience;

• Create and implement strategies to support private companies and government institutions to function effectively during an emergency;

• Conduct assessments to prioritize maintenance improvements and repair programmes;

• Conduct assessments to prioritize retrofitting, capacity redesign, demolition or replacement of damaged and bsolete structures;

• Take preventive measures in buildings that are damaged, not being used, in a state of disrepair or obsolete;

• Implement activities to discourage occupation of buildings in state of disrepair or obsolete to avoid jeopardizing human safety;

• Demolish at-risk infrastructure if the building has no cultural or historic value or cannot be repaired;

urban design;

• # of investments, design and construction of new sustainable infrastructure by the private sector;

• # of strategies to support private companies and government institutions to function during emergencies created and implemented;

• # of assessments concerning repair programmes;

• # of assessments addressing retrofitting, capacity redesign, demolition or replacement of damaged and obsolete structures;

• # of preventive measures addressing damaged or obsolete buildings;

• # Implementation of activities to discourage irregular occupation of buildings;

• # of at-risk infrastructure demolished;




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Essential 9: Ensure effective preparedness and disaster response.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • The upgrade of informal

settlements and promotion of safe construction of non-engineered buildings strengthened in the Municipality of Praia;

• Establish a participatory mechanism to reduce risk in vulnerable settlements; take into account the population’s

• Assessments needs and difficulties of rapidly changing existing building practices;

• Relocation of informal settlements to safer locations, while improving the quality of life, addressing livelihood needs and patterns, and seeking innovative ways to finance improved services on new sites;

• Promote resilient design, safer construction and strengthening of non-engineered buildings, using low-cost techniques and locally available materials;

• Share know-how through public campaigns and demonstrations of safer construction techniques;

• # of participatory mechanisms to reduce risk in vulnerable settlements in place;

• # of assessments needs and difficulties to support changing existing building practices;

• # of informal communities relocated to safer areas;

• # of innovative financial mechanisms, based on improved public services, in place;

• # of available low-cost techniques to support resilient design and safer construction;

• # of workshops and activities to know-how sharing in public communications campaigns;


2 • Build local capacities and strengthen participation in urban and peri-urban planning and land use;

• Build the technical capacity and competence of local enforcement officials, builders, tradesmen and practicing professionals to promote compliance with DRR and environmental regulations, plans, land

• # of trainings, workshops and capacity building activities to promote compliance with DRR and environmental regulations, plans, land zoning and building codes;





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zoning and building codes and to promote/develop innovative local buildings, plans and technologies;

• Build local citizen awareness to monitor and report unsafe building practices and constructions to improve compliance;

• Create special technical task forces to conduct independent periodic DRR inspections;

• # of trainings, workshops and capacity building activities to raise citizen awareness, monitoring and reporting of unsafe practices;

• Creation of a DRR Task Force for periodic DRR

inspections;

3 • Raise public awareness in the Municipality of Praia;

• Conduct and promote a public awareness campaign on citizen safety and disaster risk reduction, with messages on local hazards and risk and steps the municipality of Praia is taking to mitigate and manage these, including the potential effects of climate change;

• Encourage local citizens’ groups, schools, the mass media and the private sector to join/support the Global Campaign by spreading awareness of these messages;

• # of public awareness campaigns on citizen safety and DRR;

• # of local citizens groups supporting the Global Campaign, in the Municipality of Praia, created and functional;


4 • Develop risk reduction training and capacity building at the city level;

• Establish a sustainable and permanent training programme for key city personnel, in partnership with communities, a variety of professionals from the social and economic sector and

• # of permanent training programmes on DRR, in partnership with communities established;

• # of partnerships established with NGOs, research





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specialized local and national institutions;

• Work with local resources such as the Red Cross, universities, NGOs, teachers and others;

• Focus on training priority target groups such as: municipal departments and emergency management authorities1;

• Distribute the Global Campaign Handbook and DRR guidance material, offering short courses and ongoing training opportunities;

centers and Universities established;

• # of training activities undertaken focusing on target groups;

• # of short courses addressing and distributing the Global Campaign Handbook and DRR guidance material;

5 • Strengthen and improve preparedness and prevention in the Municipality of Praia;

• Establish institutional and legislative mechanisms to ensure that emergency preparedness forms part of the policies and actions of all sectors and institutions throughout the municipality of Praia;

• Prepare, review and enhance city-wide inter-agency institutional preparedness and response plans, using credible scenarios;

• Integrate the results of local-level risk analysis into the design of communication and disaster preparedness strategies;

• Ensure that Praia’s

• # of institutional and legislative mechanisms to ensure emergency and preparedness in place;

• Creation and implementation of a city-wide inter-agency institutional preparedness and response plan;

• # of plans and norms integrating the results of local-level risk analysis into the design of communication and disaster preparedness strategies able to deliver immediate relief and survivor


1Fire and rescue services; medical emergency teams and law enforcement personnel; specialists in engineering, water and sanitation, surveying, planning and zoning, environment, health and communications; the media; the private sector; community leaders; and educators.




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preparedness plan has effective systems for delivery of immediate relief and survivor support, in partnership with preidentified local citizens’ organizations;

support, in partnership with preidentified local citizens’ organizations;

6 • An accessible multi-hazard early warning system is created and operative in the Municipality of Praia:

• Establish an early warning and communication system that includes protective measures and clear evacuation routes, as part of the preparedness plan;

• Strengthen local capacity to avoid dependence on external resources and to encourage participation and knowledge sharing;

• Clearly define who has the institutional and decision-making responsibility for updating risk information and activating early warning systems;

• Simulate contingencies to test the effectiveness of proposed responses and public information and education on risks and risk management;

• Creation of an early warning and communication system;

• # of mechanisms in place to strengthen local capacity to avoid dependence on external resources and to encourage participation;

• # of established mechanisms that clearly Clearly define who has the institutional and decision-making responsibility for updating risk information and activating early warning systems;

• # of contingency simulations undertaken every year – one (1) for each key sector;


7 • Local capacity to plan for recovery before disaster happens is reinforced in the municipality of Praia;

• Before a disaster, tackle the challenges of planning and implementing a successful post-disaster recovery, in collaboration with the public, local

• Creation and implementation of a post-disaster framework, in close collaboration with different actors of the municipality;





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professionals as well as the private sector;

• Build consensus on recovery goals and strategies, gather critical information to inform recovery decisions;

• Define roles and responsibilities and develop the necessary capacity to efficiently manage recovery operations at the municipal level;

• # of actions and mechanisms to build consensus on recovery goals and strategies;

• # of actions and mechanisms to gather critical information to inform recovery decisions as well as actions to ensure the quality of the information gathered;

• # of actions and mechanisms to define roles and responsibilities and develop the necessary DRR capacity at the municipal level;

Essential 10: Expedite recovery and build back better.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK AREA ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY 1 • City-wide disaster safety

initiatives are established; • Commemorate the

anniversary of locally-memorable disasters with a “disaster safety day”;

• Establish a memorial in the city and organize a small exhibition/disaster museum to preserve the memory of the impact of past disasters;

• Participate in the International Day for Disaster Reduction, celebrated each year on 13th October, and in other

• Establish, by law, a disaster safety day in the work calendar of the Municipality of Praia, celebrated each year on 13th October;

• Establish a DRR memorial and museum;





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related events such as World Meteorological Day, World Health Day, World Habitat Day and events commemorating major national disasters;

2 • Recovery is part of disaster reduction plans and public policies in the Municipality of Praia;

• Consider recovery and reconstruction as integral parts of the city’s routine risk reduction and development processes;

• Determine what resources will be needed and plan, in advance, for securing these;

• # of actions and mechanisms to ensure recovery as an integral part of urban- and peri-urban development process;


3 • Include the affected population in the definition of needs

• In all phases of the reconstruction process, focus attention on the needs of survivors and the affected population, promoting their participation in decisions about the design and execution of actions that help guarantee resilience and sustainability, taking into account the concept of Build-Back-Better;

• Carry out activities that enable the city to return to levels of normalcy as quickly as possible, including the reopening of schools, hospitals and

roads, taking into account the concept of Build-Back-Better;

• Ensure that actions and programmes include counselling to support the economic situation in the

• # of mechanisms including and promoting the needs of affected populations;

• # of activities carried out that enable the Municipality of Praia to return to levels of normalcy, taking into account the concept of Build-Back-Better;

• # of counseling centers to help the private sector and citizen to recovery from disasters;





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aftermath of disasters;

4 • The concepts of build back better, in the recovery process, are implemented in the urban and peri-urban development process in the Municipality of Praia;

• Evaluate the Praia’s DRR strategic plan, designating as priority those areas that are most affected by and sensitive to development; apply disaster risk reduction criteria as a crosscutting measure;

• Formulate programmes and projects as needed, strengthening activities that lead to resilience;

• Define mechanisms, laws and a solid institutional and a political early recovery framework for the Municipality of Praia;

• Create and strengthen local capacities, with an emphasis on DRR, and strengthen development from within, using local knowledge and resources;

• During the recovery process, don’t overlook the protection of natural and cultural resources and values;

• Pay special attention to transitional shelters, ensuring that they are resilient and compliant with local regulations and that they do not become permanent slums;

• # of mechanisms applying disaster risk reduction criteria as a crosscutting measure e Praia’s DRR strategic plan;

• # of programmes and projects formulated to strengthen activities that lead to resilience;

• # of mechanisms, laws and a solid institutional and a political early recovery framework for the Municipality of Praia;

• # of mechanisms, laws and a solid institutional and a political decision that strengthen development from within, using local knowledge and resources;

• # of actions to consider the protection of natural and cultural resources and values adequately;

• Create mechanisms, incentives, and penalties to ensure that transitional shelters are compliant with local regulations and that they do not become permanent slums;


5 • Resources, and alliances that ensure sustainability

• Prepare a resource management strategy to

• Create a resource management strategy

By January 2023; Municipality of Praia, Private and Public




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are strengthened in the Municipality of Praia;

initiate the reconstruction process;

• Convene national and international cooperation agencies, businesses and other potential partners;

• Strengthen existing and create new partnerships and networks to contribute to reconstruction, looking at ways to create new capacities and take advantage of technical and scientific innovation to reduce future risk and increase resilience;

to initiate the reconstruction process;

• Establish actions to covene SIDS, International and national cooperation agencies, actors, businesses and other potential partners in the Municipality of Praia;

• # of mechanisms in place to strengthen existing and partnerships and networks to contribute to reconstruction, early recovery and preparedness in SIDS;

educational sectors and Civil protection, International and national cooperation agencies, actors, businesses and other potential partners in SIDS;

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