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Barbados: Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Policy

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The Barbados Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Policy 2022 ensures that there is a strategic direction to keeping people safe and making communities more resilient to disaster and climate related risks and impacts.

The policy aims to: 

  • Provide the strategic direction and supportive governance and accountability arrangements for a safer, more resilient, and sustainable Barbados through comprehensive disaster management.
  • Guide the development and mainstreaming of CDM policies and programs for a resilient Barbados society. 
  • Ensure Barbados meets its regional and international disaster management obligations.
  • Articulate the vision and goals for comprehensive disaster management for the Government of Barbados in line with the objectives of the Emergency Management Act, Cap. 160A (2006)

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Themes Disaster risk management Governance
Country and region Barbados
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Publication year
2024
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