Find DRR national legal frameworks

This page displays national legal frameworks on disaster risk, climate adaptation and resilience.

Governance of risk plays a central role in managing disaster risk. A national legal framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a comprehensive set of laws, regulations, policies, and institutional arrangements that a country establishes to manage and mitigate disaster risks. It defines the roles and responsibilities of governmental and non-governmental entities and sets up national agencies for coordinating DRR activities.

Legal frameworks include regulations and standards to prevent disasters or minimize their impact, such as building codes and land-use planning regulations, and outlines preparedness and response measures like emergency plans and early warning systems. A robust national legal framework for DRR is essential for creating a structured and coordinated approach to managing disaster risks, enhancing resilience, and protecting lives, property, and livelihoods.

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This Act ensures the development and improvement of a disaster prevention and response system that functions to protect the population, properties, and the homeland. It delegates regulating authority to various agencies depending on the type of disaster

People's Republic of China - government
Policies and plans

This act provides the legal basis for disaster management in Saint Lucia. This includes the establishment of the National Emergency Management Organisation and the National Emergency Management Advisory Committee for disaster management planning and

Saint Lucia - government
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An act to provide for an integrated and co-ordinated disaster management that focuses prevention, preparedness, response, mitigation and recovery from disasters or emergency situations as well as the management of the effects from such events; to

Gambia - government
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This order may be cited as the disaster management order, 2006. The long title of this order is "An order to provide for effective disaster management for Brunei Darussalam and for matters connected therewith or incidental there".

This order provides the

Brunei Darussalam - government
Policies and plans

Repeals and replaces the Natural Calamity Relief Act of 1982. Provides for the cooperation of national and local authorities in the framework of the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in the case of natural disasters in Nepal. Focuses on

Nepal - government
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Act to improve preventive flood control of 3 May 2005, amending the Federal Water Act, the Federal Building Code, the Federal Regional Planning Act, the Federal Waterway Act, the Act on the German Meteorological Service, the Environmental Audit Act, and

Germany - government
Policies and plans

The Climate Change Act 2008 is a legal framework to set a target for the year 2050 for the reduction of targeted greenhouse gas emissions; to provide for a system of carbon budgeting; to establish a Committee on Climate Change; to confer powers to

United Kingdom - government
Policies and plans

This Act officially amends various sections the 2005 Disaster Management Act. This version revises the functions of the National Council for Disaster Management and its meeting times. Moreover, the 2011 Act amends the powers and functions of the Disaster

Sri Lanka - government

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