National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management.

This National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management is structured around six chapters as follows: Chapter 1 takes into account aspects related to the country profile, the historical profile of disasters, and the factors of vulnerability. Moreover, this chapter focuses on the synoptic picture of humanitarian crises, analyzing the immediate, underlying and deep causes of crises. Chapter 2 presents an analysis the capacities, weaknesses, needs and priorities of disaster risk management. It addresses the institutional and macroeconomic framework for disaster risk management, the information system, capacity building and transfer, as well as financial mechanisms. Chapter 3 emphasizes the basis of the disaster risk management, the conceptual evolution of disaster management, institutional mechanisms (good practices and lessons learned from international experiences), the principles and policies of disaster risk management. Chapter 4 presents the key elements of the institutional arrangements and proposes the institutional framework for effective disaster risk management. This structure, once approved, will be the institutional basis through which the national, regional and local disaster risk management plan will be operational. Fundamental principles for effective and efficient institutional mechanisms for risk prevention and disaster management are also addressed.