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Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
This plan seeks to document the stakeholders of disaster management in Trelawny, their roles and responsibilities, available resources, critical infrastructure in addition to other relatable information.
Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
This plan seeks to document the key players of disaster management in Hanover, their roles and responsibilities, available resources, critical infrastructure in addition to other pertinent information.
Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
The Parish Disaster Plan of Clarendon seeks to give guidance and direction to the established committee in its operations of all the phases in disaster management.
Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
The purpose of the document is to ensure the parish has strong mitigation actions as well as tangible standard operating procedures for response to natural and anthropogenic hazards and the impacts of climate change.
Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
This plan seeks to document the partakers of disaster management in St. James, their roles and responsibilities, available resources, critical infrastructure in addition to other relatable information.
Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
This Parish Disaster Plan aims to promote and reinforce disaster management at the parish level in St. Elizabeth, outlining the emergency response framework and responsibilities for the disaster management stakeholders.
Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
The Mount Airy Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Plan represent the operational procedures and strategies to be employed at community level in response to, recovery from and preparing for a number of hazards.
Cover and source: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
Policies and plans
This document is the outcome of a consultative process involving a cross section of professionals who work with the disaster management for Kingston and St Andrew.

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