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Minimizing the Impact of Water Disasters : The 2001 Floods in Mozambique - Enrique Munoz Leira

4. The Management Mechanisms
 

The National Disaster Management System

The Co-ordinating Council for Disaster Management (CCGC) is the government body responsible for policy decisions relating to disasters. The Prime Minister chairs the CCGC and his deputy is the Minister of Foreign Affairs & Co-operation. The other four members are the ministers of Public Works & Housing, Transport & Communications, Health and Agriculture & Rural Development.

Day-to-day management of matters relating to disasters is the responsibility of the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC). This is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Co-operation. Currently INGC has delegates in each of Mozambique's provinces, excluding Maputo City.

The Disaster Management Technical Council (CTGC) provides technical back up to INGC. Its members represent the ministers on the Co-ordinating Council for Disaster Management, and it normally meets four times a year. The CTGC should co-ordinate sector and ministry warning systems on imminent disasters. It is also expected to define the national warning system, and propose the declaration of an emergency. The government's National Policy on Disaster Management was approved in October 1999.

The United Nations Disaster Management Structures

The United Nations Resident Coordinator chairs the United Nations Disaster Management Team (UNDMT) and represents the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The UNDMT is the inter-agency body responsible for the emergency preparedness programme. It consists of heads of agencies, heads of clusters, agency focal points, disaster preparedness officers and staff members with related responsibilities, as well as representatives of the INGC, Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), LINK (the NGO Forum in Mozambique) and the Mozambique Red Cross.

For the duration of the 2001 Emergency Programme, the United Nations Resident Coordinator's Office (UNRCO), set up, with assistance from OCHA, an Emergency Coordination Unit composed of an emergency coordination adviser, a data/information management officer, a communications officer and a media and public relations officer. In addition, OCHA provided funds to post emergency coordinators to assist the operations.


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