Strengthening Disaster Risk Management Project

The development objective of the Strengthening Disaster Risk Management Project for Romania is to enhance the resilience of critical disaster and emergency response facilities and to strengthen the institutional capacities in investment planning for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The project comprises of three components. The first component, improving seismic resilience of disaster and emergency response infrastructure objective is to improve the seismic safety and disaster resilience of critical disaster and emergency response buildings through investments in building infrastructure, structural strengthening, and modernization. The second component, enhancing institutional capacity for risk reduction investment planning objective is to enhance institutional capacity to accelerate risk reduction through improved understanding of disaster and climate risks in Romania, with a focus on developing risk reduction programs and investment strategies to guide future risk reduction investments. The third component, project management will support all costs related to project implementation, such as staff salaries (for non-civil servants), external specialists and consultants for the department of emergency situations (DES) and general inspectorate for emergency situations (GIES) project units for technical issues, procurement, prioritization of sub-projects, management of social and environmental safeguard issues, financial management (FM), monitoring and evaluation (M and E), project reporting, and so on.