Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) For Disaster Risk Management.

Somaliland is located in a region susceptible to climate change induced disasters, particularly, drought, floods and lately, increasing incidents of cyclones and rainstorms, causing destruction of property, destruction of key sectors of the economy, destruction of infrastructure, personal injury and death.  To address these climate change induced disasters requires integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy and Disaster Risk Malmanagement (DRM) practice into national development agenda and sustainable development goals (SDGs).  To achieve this, current DRR and DRM practices encourages a cohesive and interlinked disaster risk management strategies at national level and across all sectors and communities.

As part of the National Disaster Management Strategy, NADFOR, the government agency responsible for the management of disaster related crises in Somaliland, has established this Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) For Disaster Risk Management.  The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is intended to ensure disaster response operations are carried out in a systematic way by organizations participating in emergency relief efforts or disaster response operations. To improve response capacity of the country and to respond emergency crises effectively, the SOP operationalizes both “National Disaster Preparedness Strategy” and the “National Disaster Contingency Plan”. It proposes specific measurable set of actions which needs to be taken before, during emergency response operation and at the recovery phase. The actions proposed by the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) prior to and throughout the disaster response and recovery phase are in line with the international humanitarian coordination system which was set by General Assembly resolution 46/182 in December 1991.