Law and Disaster Preparedness and Response: Multi-Country Synthesis Report | NLM

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Law and Disaster Preparedness and Response: Multi-Country Synthesis Report

11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Published: 11/2019. The purpose of this 155-page report is to inform the proposed Checklist on Law and Disaster Preparedness and Response, by identifying the key issues that should be included and providing detailed recommendations about how to develop law and policy to address those issues. It contains 10 thematic chapters, each of which addresses a cluster of related issues in disaster preparedness and response, discusses the issues in depth, and analyzes the extent to which those issues are already adequately addressed by domestic law in the sample countries. (PDF)