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Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

Chapter 4 : Provincial Disaster Management

Part 2 : Provincial disaster management centres

33. Prevention and mitigation

 

(1) A provincial disaster management centre, to the extent that it has the capacity, must give guidance to organs of state, the private sector, non-governmental organisations communities and individuals in the province to assess and prevent or reduce the risk of disasters, including—
(a) ways and means of—
(i) determining levels of risk;
(ii) assessing the vulnerability of communities and households to disasters that may occur;
(iii) increasing the capacity of communities and households to minimise the risk and impact of disasters that may occur; and
(iv) monitoring the likelihood of, and the state of alertness to disasters that may occur;
(b) the development and implementation of appropriate prevention and mitigation methodologies;
(c) the integration of prevention and mitigation methodologies with development plans, programmes and initiatives; and
(d) the management of high-risk developments.

 

(2) A provincial disaster management centre must promote formal and informal initiatives that encourage risk-avoidance behaviour by organs of state, the private sector, non-governmental organisations communities and individuals in the province.