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Annual Report 2017: Provincial Disaster Management Authority - Towards Disaster Resilient Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (PDMA KP)

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under Section16 of the NDM Act, 2010, is mandated to carryout Disaster Risk Management activities, which include preparedness, mitigation, relief, recovery and response.
Whereas, response and recovery are subject to occurrence of both natural and manmade calamities, preparedness and mitigation go along round the year as part of regular functions of PDMA. In the year 2017, while PDMA was called upon to mount response action both during winter and monsoon of the same year, it carried out a number of preparedness and mitigation projects as well in collaboration with partners and on its own to strengthen the overall resilience capacity of the province.

Projects worth 3041 million PKR were carried out during the year. The cost of projects in DRR sector remained 549 .40 million, in Food security 259.61 million, in WASH sector 723.3 million, in Education 190.52 million, in Protection sector 592.82 million and in Nutrition sector, the project cost was 296.40 million. As part of its routine activities, PDMA KP came up with its monsoon contingency plan for the year 2017, after due deliberations with all Federal and Provincial Departments and line agencies. Besides this, PDMA also carried out an extensive awareness campaign in the days leading to the onset of monsoon and commemoration of both National and International Disaster Risk Management days.

As part of response, PDMA had to mount search and rescue operations in the district of Chitral, in early 2017 coupled with a few operations during monsoon, owing to below normal rainfall and subsequently lessor incidents of flooding, both flash and riverine. 183 number of people were compensated for deaths and injuries, 326 number of houses were compensated for house damages and the lives of 270 people were saved. This report encompasses detail of the incidents and events and is reflection of the performance of the PDMA in the year 2017.