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RoRommaaniania
Hazard Risk Mitigation & Hazard Risk Mitigation & Emergency Preparedness Emergency Preparedness
ProjectProject
Aurel BilaniciAurel BilaniciMinistry of Interior and Administrative ReformMinistry of Interior and Administrative Reform
Overall objectiveOverall objective of the of the ProProjectjectto assist the Government in reducing the environmental,
social, and economic vulnerability to natural disasters, and catastrophic mining accidental spills of pollutants, by:
strengthening the institutional and technical capacity for disaster management and emergency response, through upgrading communication and information systems
implementing specific risk reduction investments for floods, landslides and earthquakes
improving the safety of selected water-retention dams, and
improving, on a pilot basis, the management and safety of tailings dams, and waste dump facilities.
RomRomaaninia’s va’s vulnerabilulnerabilities to ities to natural and non-natural disastersnatural and non-natural disasters
• Earthquakes – Bucharest European capital exposed to the highest seismic risk, among the first 10 in the world;
• Floods – annual events producing human lost and high damages;
• Landslides – approx. 20% of territory present favorable conditions;
• Ecological accidents at mining exploitations sites.
March, 4, 1977: Damages produced after 7.2 earthquake occurred. Buildings constructed before 1944, centre of Bucharest.
The World Bank approachThe World Bank approach
• Re-construction projects for the after disaster moments
• The Complex National Strategy for Risks’ Management, Istanbul 2004– Systemic Integration
– Risks assessment• Emergency Preparedness
• Disaster Prevention
• Catastrophic Risks Financing
– Reduction of the Countries’ exposure to economic damages
The Romanian ApproachThe Romanian Approach
• Romania asked the World Bank for financial assistance for a seismic risk mitigation project
• The project’s field was extended in order to include also other types of calamities (flooding, dams safety, ecologic safety of mining exploitations)– Annual frequency of flooding after 1997
– International echoes about the ecological accident in 2000
Project development objectivesProject development objectives
To assist the Government of Romania in reducing the environmental, social, and economic vulnerability to natural disasters and catastrophic mining accidental spills of pollutants through:
– Strengthening emergency management capacity
– Specific measures to mitigate and reduce risks in case of earthquake, floods, landslides, and safety of tailing dams and waste dump facilities.
Project Characteristics:Project Characteristics:– First project in South East Europe in the
field of prevention – Inter-governmental cooperation– 4 institutions involved in implementation
of the project– Different approaches concerning project
management – PMU structures– Each component comprising 4-6 sub-
components conversing to the general scope
Project Characteristics Project Characteristics continuecontinue
• Romania understood the advantages of the prevent action towards the response reaction after producing of natural calamities
• Strong and constant support from institutions/ governmental agencies in the preparedness period, by elaborating the procedures of invest priority, the intervention order and technical documents elaboration on specific costs
• Good Inter-ministerial collaboration for the preparedness and implementation of the project
COMPONENT ACOMPONENT A
Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Interior and Administration ReformAdministration Reform
Strengthening of Emergency Management and Risk Financing Capacity
COMPONENT BCOMPONENT BMinistry of Development, Public Works and Housing
Earthquake Risk Reduction
COMPONENT CCOMPONENT CMinistry of Environment and Sustainable Development
Flood and Landslide Risk Reduction
COMPONENT D COMPONENT D National Agency for Mineral Resources
Risk Reduction of Mining Accidents in Tisza Basin
Estimated resultsEstimated results
• Strengthened institutional and technical capacity for emergency management and emergency response having a solid and coherent communication and information system at national and local levels.
• Reduced losses within public and private sector in case of strong earthquake and floods.
• Increased safety of tailing dams and waste dump facilities, and reduced risks for negative impacts of mining accidental spills of pollutants into river basins.
Project BenefitsProject Benefitsa) strengthened government capacity to respond
rapidly in the face of disaster; b) increased earthquake preparedness with critical
public facilities retrofitted; c) reduction o frisk for water pollution from mining
operations; d) improved dam safety of the selected priority
structures;e) developed policy and technical foundations for
creation of the national insurance plan which would shirr the financial burden of reconstruction from individual families and the government to international re-insurers, capital markets, and the future insurance pool.
f) once effective risk management measures are in place, economic and human losses will be reduced.
BeneBeneffiit t for the following groups for the following groups of Romanian populationof Romanian population
Project benefit for the following groups of Romanian population through reducing the chances of significant loss of life and property through natural disasters:
a) those living along the seismic Vrancea subduction zone, notably Bucharest's 2 million inhabitants, through increased earthquake preparedness;
b) people living in communities vulnerable to the risk of floods and landslides through upgraded flood protection infrastructure and better mapping of the landslide risk areas;
c) people living in the areas adjacent to unsafe large and small dams;
d) people living in proximity to operating and closed mines, particularly in Tisza basin, through reduced risk of mining accidental spills.