National Policy on Disaster Management

The National Policy on Disaster Management is a national sectoral policy of Botswana. Its main objectives include (1) to establish and maintain optimum systems for dealing with disasters other than drought/famine in Botswana and to integrate these systems into normal ongoing development activities at national, district and local levels, achieving these, as far as possible, within national resource capacity; (2) to create a framework which facilitates the preparation of plans and legislation for the effective implementation of disaster management in Botswana and its legitimacy; (3) to outline the responsibilities of different personnel at different levels in the implementation of the disaster management programme; (4) to establish a set of working definitions for the disaster management programme in Botswana; and (5) to ensure that the disaster management policy is consistent with policies from other sectors and the objectives of the National Development Plan.