ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik underscored importance of data usage and actionable intelligence’s availability to forewarn communities before disaster strikes and expand scope of national alerts to target audience in affected zones.

NDMA Chairman participated in thought-provoking panel discussions on climate change, humanitarian crises and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), during his visit to Bangkok, held during Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week (RHPW) 2022, news release here received said.

First session was collectively organised by International Council of Voluntary Agencies, Asian Disaster Risk Reduction Network, Community World Service Asia and United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

It discussed data challenges at nexus of DRR, humanitarian crises and climate change adaptation. Besides Chairman NDMA Pakistan, participants from Global Data Laboratory, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, ADRRN, Green Climate Fund and University of Delaware took part in discussion.

Chairman NDMA explained value of archived, upgraded and studied databases that could help enable tangible outcomes of any action plan in field of DRR.

Second session was specifically about Impact of climate change on Pakistan.

Organised and hosted by Pakistan Humanitarian Forum and National Humanitarian Network including representatives from key donor agencies.

Chairman NDMA apprised house about devastating floods experienced by Pakistan this year and resilience-driveniven national response.

He shed light on NDMA’s vision to be a futuristic, technology-enabled entity and globally engaged organisation committed to ‘Climate Millennium Goals’ and leading for ‘Climate Reversal Initiatives’.

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 14 2022

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