PDMA KP prepares monsoon contingency plan 2022 to mitigate hazards.

PESHAWAR -- The Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (PDMA KP) in consultation with all stakeholders including District Administration, Provincial and Federal line departments and development partners has developed Monsoon Contingency Plan 2022 to prevent and mitigate monsoon hazards and ensure unified response in case of any untoward event.

Director General PDMA Sharif Hussain Saturday said that natural hazards and consequent disasters caused massive losses to people's lives, livelihoods and properties, which retarded economic growth.

'Under this contingency plan, the Authority make efforts to minimize the losses likely to be caused by the natural disasters,' he said.

The DG said that PDMA being cognizant of the importance of monsoon preparedness and contingency planning has worked out contingency plan 2022 in line with its vision of disaster resilient Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The process of Monsoon Contingency Planning was started from the first week of March 2022 by involving all stakeholders. Tools for data collection were developed and shared with all stakeholders including information regarding district and sector specific hazards and vulnerability profile, hazard impact, damages, compensation paid, resource mapping, need assessment and coordination.

The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to the impacts of climate Change patterns and Global warming has witnessed a number of extreme climate events like the recurrence of recent years `Glacial Lake Outbursts floods in the Northern regions, especially in Chitral which wreaked havoc to the built system of that areas. Similarly, the thunderstorms and heavy rain- fall in Malakand and Hazara regions resulted in widespread damages and flooding downstream. Due to the changing weather patterns such types of events will increase in frequency in the future ahead-which warrant mitigative measures, preparedness and planning ahead of time and multi-pronged approach and implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction strategies.

Monsoon Contingency Plan 2022 gives a detailed view of hazards profile of all the districts vulnerabilities and risks and its index, available and deployed resources, mapping of public and private sector machinery, mechanism of coordination at district, provincial and national level, the type of strategy to be adopted and the formation of control room in case of any emergency situation.

The plan chalks out the preparedness level of all stakeholders and will serve...