{"id":6929,"date":"2019-12-03T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","slug":"institutionalise-disaster-risk-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/03\/institutionalise-disaster-risk-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutionalise Disaster Risk Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Shalom Magoma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing rains have opened the\nPandora\u2019s box of how pitiably our disaster risk management structures are\ncontrolled and managed. The cyclic risk of floods and droughts often leave a\nbad taste in the mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The response to the ongoing flooding\nhas proved to be a disjointed effort that lacks coordination and is marred by\npolitical intrigues where politicians want to amass leverage through sympathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can\u2019t the national and county\ngovernments anticipate and respond to disasters or Parliament enact a national\ndisaster management law to help us leverage on disaster coordination and\nfinancing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislation would ensure that\ndisaster risk management and associated finances are better coordinated with a\nno-regrets approach, especially for the government (but it rarely has room for\nregret).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would offer counties an\nopportunity to be the first responders, as stipulated by the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Institutionalise-disaster-risk-management\/440808-5370582-3npevrz\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shalom Magoma The ongoing rains have opened the Pandora\u2019s box of how pitiably our disaster risk management structures are controlled and managed. The cyclic risk of floods and droughts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}