The Disaster Risk Management Act 2022 sets out a series of instruments to implement the Disaster Risk Management Policy, covering everything from planning and coordination to financing and standards. In total, there are 21 sections detailing these measures.
The purpose of this Act is to develop, promote and implement an approach to disaster risk management that is holistic, comprehensive, integrated, and proactive in lessening the socio-economic and environmental impacts of disasters including climate change and focuses on reducing risk, including the risk of loss of life, health, physical integrity, economic disruption and damage to the environment and property, especially to those members of the population who are most vulnerable by reason of age, disability, poverty, lack of resources, physical displacement or gender; and to promote the involvement and participation of all relevant sectors and stakeholders, at all levels of the society.
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