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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) Regional Workshop

On Geo-referenced information system for improving disaster risk

preparedness and management in Asia and the PacificThailand

June 26-27, 2014

By: M.Nasim AbrahimiTraining General Manager. ANDMA

Background

•Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) was established in 1971.

•The Role of ANDMA is to coordinate and manage disaster related affairs.

•ANDMA Acts as the Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Committee (NDMC) and Provincial Disaster Management Committees (PDMC).

•Provincial Disaster Committees are set up in all 34 provinces.

•ANDMA Formulates and execute policies, strategies , Plan and monitoring the progress.

•Strengthening coordination with line ministries and the Humanitarian community.

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*Coordination Mechanism

Coordination Mechanism

Types of Disasters in Afghanistan

Drought

Flood Avalanche

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Earthquake

Extreme weather

Landslide

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Sandstorms

Man made disaster Fire

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Critical Events Timeline

01-Jan-May-2014 Floods & Landslides

Total Number of People Affected in Landslide

Province Families Affected

Badakhshan700

Bamyan 100

Baghlan 100

Takhar 118

Total 1018

•Total Affected Families : 14115•Total Affected Individuals : 97039•Houses Completely Damaged : 5395•Houses Partially Damaged : 890•Houses Severely Damaged : 5879

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Recent Flash Floods

Recent Flash Floods

Country Assistance ProvidedAfghanistan Government Cash , Food and None Food Items

Azerbaijan Food and None Food Items

Japan Food and None Food Items

Pakistan Food and None Food Items

China Cash

Korea Cash

India Cash

Turkey Food and None Food Items

Kuwait Food and None Food Items

UAE Food and None food Items

Saudi Arab Food and None Food Items

UN Food and None Food Items

International NGOs & NGO Food and None Food Items

Response

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Information Management

Data collection from the field:•ANDMA primarily uses cell phones and Internet.

•Shares information with government and Humanitarian agencies operating in Afghanistan as needed.

Building Emergency Coordination Centers (planned)•To collect, analyze and map information(Currently ANDMA receives information from UNOCHA, IOM, IMMAP etc.,)

•Strengthen coordination with line ministries and the Humanitarian community.

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Challenges

• lack of resources covers all aspects of DRR, from infrastructure remediation to information management.

• Lack of Modern instruments and tools (GIS, GPS, internet, etc.) to fill the gaps in disaster management information system supply chain present in Afghanistan.

• Shortage of sufficient Human Capacity in Information and communication Technology. lack of early warning systems, including earthquake detection, satellite imagery and other advanced technology.

• Limitation in relief stocks, insufficient food and non-food items in emergency situation.

• Insufficient facilities for search and rescue i.e. heavy machinery, fire-fighting trucks and tankers.

Looking Forward

• Build fully functional Information Management System & Identifying operational Gaps present at country level.

• Vulnerabilities Assessment to be conducted throughout the country.

• Capacity building and Strengthening of provincial disaster management offices with needed equipment's.

• Disaster Risk Reduction awareness at Province - District –Community levels is significantly needed.

• Prevention and Mitigation Projects should be conducted on a regular basis.

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Capacity Building Needs

• Capacity building in rapid assessment, search and rescue team training, imagery analysis and seismic detection instrument utilization.

• Training of rapid response and assessment personnel, search and rescue personnel, Information Management and satellite image analysis teams.

• Training of personnel in emergency medicine, first-aid and care, and recovery in remote disaster prone areas.

GEO PORTAL

Implementation of Geo Portal• ANDMA received two Trainings on the Implementation of

Geo- referenced Information Systems for Disaster Risk Management , 24-28 March and Oct -1 Nov 2013

• ANDMA is in the initial stage of implementation of Geo –Referencing after getting trained by UNESCAP, with Coordination of line- Ministries .

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Vision of Geonode

Open Risk Date Initiative

AFGHANISTAN

AFGDATA

ESCAPDATA

XXXXDATA

BNGDATA

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Understanding Risk

Priorities for Geonode

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Why Geo node?

• Includes many build-in features that were needed in world map:

1. user registration / login system

2. Upload /download geospatial data

3. Control access to data

4. Map creation and editing tools

• Open source …

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Geo Portal

The portal is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides access to large scale geospatial data sets, as well as sophisticated search, discovery and analysistools to make the data readily available to researchers. Resources includedata licensed by authoritative academic libraries, such as land-based vector data

(water, cultural features, etc.), census geography, and ortho photography.

Display Different data types using basic tools in QGIS

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Display Different data types using basic tools in QGIS

Taleqan river- zargari village

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Gabion wall in Aye khanom dashte qala

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Landslide – Badakhshan –Argu district- barikab village

Landslide – Badkhshan, Argo

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Affected People in Landslide

Avalanche – Parwan, Salang Highway

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Flood in Jawzjan

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UNESCAP can assess us in areas of the Geo-referenced InformationSystem :

1- continuing the training workshop of Geo portal up to that level that participant can useit properly.

2- training workshop is needed in GIS using.

3- capacity building is needed in satellite imagery analysis.

4- provide us technical support during the establishing of this portal and after that formaintenance and development of system.

5- provide an expert person that monitor from the implementation and giving benefits from it for high performance when needed, if possible.

6- Provide online trainings about using of this portal in DRR.

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Expectation from UNESCAP

Thank you For attention

More Information you can find throughwww.andma.gov.af