Promote innovative climate and disaster resilient technologies and practices towards building sustainable island communities
Enhance island and atoll level preparedness and response capacities to manage annual hazardsSDG: 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human
and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation,
adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
Enhancing Emergency Response
Capacity in the Maldives
The Maldives is vulnerable to multi-hazard risks including those resulting from storm surges, cyclones, strong winds, flooding and tsunami. The Maldives Disaster Risk Profile reveals that country is high vulnerabilities and exposures to hazards due to geographical, topographical and socio-economic factors. Dangers posed by climate change exacerbates the issues further. The latest IPCC report released on October 2018 indicates that a rise in 1.5C to 2C temperatures will have hue impacts on health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, the biggest impact would be on coral reefs.
The projected rise in temperatures are forecasted to kill roughly 80% of all coral reefs. This immediate impact of climate change will have a severe impact on the Maldives especially the island populations as coral reefs are the source of natural protection of the island towards erosion, food security through the marine ecosystem and livelihoods through the tourism sector.
Projects are proposed in the following areas:
- Enhancing Emergency Response Capacity: This project seeks to focus on the strengthening of the National Disaster Management Authority to exercise its role as the focal national agency for emergency coordination in the country, develop standard operating procedures and guidelines for response and relief operations at island and atoll level, build capacity at the atoll level, strengthen and roll out National Emergency Response Plan, and conduct annual regional level hazard specific emergency drills to foster a culture of preparedness.
- Mapping Hazards and Climate Induced Disaster Risks at the Local Level: This proposal takes into consideration mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into local development planning of corresponding regulations and building standards to make a difference in how extreme weather events impact an island community. Therefore, this project aims to strengthen island based risk assessment processes, and establish a GIS integrated Disaster Risk Management Information System, with the overall ambition of formulating island level Disaster Management Plans for knowledge management and information dissemination.
Key Stakeholders
1. National Disaster Management Authority
2. Maldives National Defence Force
3. Maldives Police Service
4. Maldivian Red Crescent
5. Local Councils
6. Local Government Authority
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