Pakistan - Promoting Resilience against Natural Disaster Impacts (NADIR)

Country / Region: Pakistan / Asia
Focal Point: Georisks

Begin of project: January 1, 2021

End of project: December 31, 2023

Status of project: July 29, 2022

Risk Exposure Map for the Districts of Mansehra and Toghar, Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Source: BGR

Natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, and floods pose a particular threat to Pakistan. Poverty, high population growth and the associated high settlement pressure on previously uninhabited areas, a high proportion of subsistence farming, insecure or poor state services and an unstable security situation result in a high level of physical and social vulnerability. This makes the country a high-risk area prone to natural disasters, which inhibit the development process of society as a whole.

The devastating earthquake of 2005 triggered a paradigm shift in the country's disaster risk management. Following the decentralization of the country in 2011, a consolidation process at the sub-national level and a strategic diversification process into reactive and preventive disaster risk management are currently taking place. This reflects in the National Disaster Management Plan Implementation Roadmap 2016–2030.

Together with the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), which is responsible for disaster risk management (DRM) at the national level and which implements the above-mentioned strategy, BGR is working on the goal of increasing awareness on the importance of spatial planning in DRM in Pakistan. Risk-sensitive spatial planning, as a preventive instrument, can help to reduce the exposure of population and infrastructure to geo-hazards. Based on analyses of risk exposure and Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Risk assessments, a spatial planning process with the participation of many different stakeholder is carried out. This takes into account the potential challenges at the national, but above all at the local level, when guidelines, strategies and development plans are being developed.

Workshop participants from several ministries, authorities, NDMA and German Development Source: BGR

The “Promoting Resilience against Natural Disaster Impacts” (NADIR) project, funded with € 2.5 million by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, is part of the core topic “Climate and Energy, Just Transition” in the field of action “Climate protection and adaptation to climate change”.

Contributions from previous projects and from the subject area:

• Pakistan - Georisks in Northern Pakistan II
• Pakistan - Promoting Resilience for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) against Natural Disaster Impacts

Literature:

Factsheet: NADIR: Promoting Resilience against Natural Disaster Impacts in Pakistan

Partner:

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)