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.

March, 4, 1977 Bucharest, Romania

Floods in Tecuci Galaţi county - 2007

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.