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
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
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
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;
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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
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

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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
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

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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.
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
• 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,
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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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.
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/addressin
g 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
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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.
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
• 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;
• • •
Essential 6: Strengthen institutional capacity for resilience.
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.
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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;
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,
Private and Public
Civil protection;

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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.
• 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
Private Sector;
• 2• Develop resilient new
infrastructure in the
• 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
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;
concerning repair
programmes;
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.
1 • The upgrade of informal
settlements and promotion
of safe construction of non-
engineered buildings
strengthened in the
• 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;
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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;
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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;

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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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;
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
Private and Public
Civil protection;

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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
• Establish institutional and
legislative mechanisms to
ensure that emergency
preparedness forms part
of the policies and actions
of all sectors and
institutions throughout the
• 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
Private and Public
Civil protection;
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Fire 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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;
7 • Local capacity to plan for
recovery before disaster
happens is reinforced in the
• 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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;

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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;
mechanisms to build
consensus on
recovery goals and
strategies;
mechanisms to gather
critical information to
inform recovery
decisions as well as
actions to ensure the
quality of the
information gathered;
mechanisms to define
roles and
responsibilities and
develop the necessary
DRR capacity at the
municipal level;
Essential 10: Expedite recovery and build back better.
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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;

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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
• 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;
mechanisms to ensure
recovery as an integral
part of urban- and
peri-urban
development process;
Private and Public
Civil protection;
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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;

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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
• 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 political early
recovery framework
for the Municipality of
Praia;
• # of mechanisms, laws
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;
Private and Public
Civil protection;
5 • Resources, and alliances
that ensure sustainability
• Prepare a resource
management strategy to
• Create a resource
management strategy
Private and Public

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are strengthened in the
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;
Civil protection,
International and
national cooperation
agencies, actors,
businesses and other
potential partners in
SIDS;

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