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Petra development tourism Region Authority is a legal, financial and administrative independent Authority, founded in 2009 and aims to develop the region touristy, economically, socially, culturally, and contribute to local community development.
Enhanced capacity of government and Civil Society organisations (CSOs) to prevent, respond to and mitigate natural and man-made disaster.
Enhancing Institutional Capacities to reduce Disaster Risk and to integrate Climate Change in the region which includes:
1-Integrated Risk Assessment
2-Setting up an Early Warning System for Flash Floods
3-Petra Neighborhood Disaster Volunteers
4-Making Petra Resilient Citys .. Petra Is getting reading
Eng. Hussein Abbas Alhasanat
https://www.preventionweb.net
http://www.jo.undp.org
Integrated Risk assessment for Wadi Mousa City in Petra
Setting-up an Early Warning System for Flash Flood
Building capacities of local communities, schools, local NGO's
Reduce the underlying risk factors by land use planning in the area and constructing dams and improving water channels and culverts, building codes, strengthening laws and regulations.
Policy, technical and institutional capacities and mechanisms for disaster risk management, with a disaster risk reduction perspective are limited.
Petra Neighborhood Disaster Volunteers
1-Integrated Risk Assessment project is being implemented in Petra nowadays (Nov 2012-July 2013)
2-Setting-up an Early Warning System for Flash Floods is being implemented in Petra nowadays (Jan-Sept 2013)
3-Disaster Risk Reduction Unit has been established in PDTRA - Directorate of Strategic Planning & Research
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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