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National Disaster Management Centre, Male’ Maldives Unite to Mitigate
Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Disaster Risk
Reduction StrategiesRepublic of Maldives
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Risk of CC to Maldives
• Damage to coastal infrastructures due to adverse impacts of hazards such as floods due to storm surge and heavy rain
• Salt water intrusion in to the fresh water lens
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Severe Beach Erosion and Loss of land
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Coral Bleaching and loss of marine life having a direct impact on economy
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Complete inundation of Islands
The 2007 IPCC
report suggested
that sea levels
would rise by
between 190
mm
(7.5
inches) and
590
mm by the end
of this century.
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Sea Level Rise Projections for Male’
Male’
in the year
202515% of Male’
inundated under
IPCC worst case
scenario (IS92e)
Male’
in the year
205030% of Male’
inundated under
IPCC worst case
scenario (IS92e)
Male’
in the year
2100Male’
inundated
completely under
IPCC worst case
scenario (IS92e)
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Recent Trends
Pro‐long dry seasons and water shortages
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• High intense hydro meteorological weather
events
• Cyclone Neelam caused heavy rains
inundating 51 islands.
• Long term impacts to drinking water
and infrastructures
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CCA-DRR Initiatives in Maldives
Population Consolidation and Safe island concept
• wider environmental protection zones.
• elevated areas for vertical evacuation in
event of floods.• easy access in
emergencies.
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National Disaster Management Centre, Male’ Maldives Unite to Mitigate
Maldives Disaster Management Bill• A balance of DRR and Response• Special focus on mainstreaming
DRR into developmental planning
• Special clauses on• Tourism Sector
Preparedness• Maldives Building Code • Education sector
Preparedness and integrating DRR‐CCA into
school curriculum• Improving Health Sector
Preparedness, especially to health hazards
• Establishment of a multi‐ hazard early warning system
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Current Programmes• Mainstreaming disaster
risk reduction in to developmental Planning• Tools
• Project Management, Budget tools
• CBDRR Framework• National framework
CBDRR• Training package• Planning tools
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• Institutional and legal systems for DRR established and capacities of DRR institutions strengthened to fulfill their mandate
• End-to-end early warning systems strengthened
• Increased public awareness and knowledge on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
• Increased community capacities for disaster preparedness for effective response
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• School Preparedness activities
• A public private partnership initiative between tourist resorts and government on enhancing the capacity of tourism sector for disaster management
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Gaps
• A sustainable method of doing scientific risk assessments needs to be explored
• Linking risk assessment to developmental planning
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• Establishing an end-to-end early warning system with both national and island Level SOPs