The gap between projects and procedures in reducing the risk of disaster …
The Belgian tourist and his son’s drowning, which was the witness of the Amman-Al-Supak Brigade, has opened questions about the weakness of the knowledge of management to overcome disaster risks, although there is a lack of culture that is prepared.
According to experts related to disaster management, “on the one hand there is a gap between projects, strategies and practices in reducing the risk of disaster, and culture in this field.”
There is no doubt that there is a bad crisis in managing disaster risks at the municipal level, where the weakness of management prevents the useful response as a major factor, especially in the light of climate change in the climate change of flood and severe weather conditions, according to Omar al -Shoshan’s claim.
In his view, “This weakness, rooted in local administrative culture, is clearly clear that the weakness of the local government departments, especially the municipalities, often failed to cope with the crises.
He added, “When it is concentrated not only at the level of the national center for more knowledge protection and crisis, it is weakened at the governor’s level, especially in distant areas.”
The kingdom, which is affected by the shortage of water, sees the rising challenges due to the climate. Risks are increased when flooding areas such as Petra or Shobac, with 90 % of its region, with less than 200 mm of rainfall annually.
But in his opinion, the lack of significant initial warning systems, because municipalities depend on insufficient traditional methods, delaying the response and increasing the loss of human and material loss, and local administrations show the lack of training and coordination, reflecting a gap in administrative capabilities.
He emphasized that reform should be focused on training local government employees and implementing advanced warning systems and creating local skills.
He called the municipalities to take over the responsibility of advanced planning instead of satisfied with the reactions, while warned that Jordan would cost much for the continuation of failure.
He emphasized that the time has come to follow the administrative approach to ensure the safety of the citizens and the stability of resources.
However, Ahmed al -Naimat, the director of the National Center for Security and Crisis Management, stressed that “the National Strategy to reduce the risk of disaster is implemented according to the table allocated to it, and it is implemented within seven purposes.”
This strategy is currently focused on improving local communities, especially municipalities and the administrative rulers of national risk ideas, and renewing the standards of registration risks at a practical level, while municipal leaders have conducted many exercises and workshops.
Regarding the lack of an early warning devices, Al -Naimat stressed that “these organizations are particularly implemented in the Petra region, which has been excreted by the number of tourists, which have seen the archaeological city earlier this month, and within 28 minutes, there have been no injuries.”
Al -Naimat said it, in the same period in the Al -Shubak Brigade, as a foreign tourist and his son’s drowning, because there are no initial warning systems in the region, it is not in a tourist group, but rather based on personal tourism projects. “
In subsequent steps implemented within the strategy, the most beautiful of them became “by completing the power of all partners within the national team to reduce the risk of representatives of 60 related companies.”
The legislative study of all laws, regulations and mechanisms, strengths and weaknesses related to disaster was conducted, according to the legislative study.
It is currently implemented and under the umbrella of the strategy, a plan with the concerned authorities and the Swiss sides, “to determine the detailed map of the places where testimony is found, and in this regard, on a terrain, satellite images and field studies.”
He continued, “The center has taken up a national danger of taking the effects of climate change as a creepy crisis and all sectors taking steps and measures to face them.”
“There is a unique joint partnership with the Armed Forces, Security Services, Ministries and Public Organizations, Private Trade Unions, Municipalities and the United Nations Development Program.”
In the meantime, “the strategy has turned from the fact that after its first review, it depends on the views that have many administrative practices represented by many projects.”
